Italian dictionaries of the 20th century From normative positions to notaries of a growing linguistic freedom

The growing attention of Italian monolingual dictionaries to written and spoken Italian during the 20th century is manifested by many traits. Three aspects will be dealt with here: loanwords from Anglo-american English, examples of “spoken Italian” from newspapers, simplified access to microstructure at the end of the century, in connection with the diffusion of online digital dictionaries.