Lingue e varietà linguistiche nel “nuovo cinema sardo”. Analisi di quattro film “letterari”

The subject of this thesis is the analysis of the language spoken by the characters of four films adapted from contemporary Sardinian novels: Sergio Atzeni’s Il figlio di Bakunìn directed by Gianfranco Cabiddu (1997); Maria Giacobbe’s Arcipelaghi directed by Giovanni Columbu (2001); Giuseppe Fiori’s Sonetàula directed by Salvatore Mereu (2008); Sergio Atzeni’s Bellas mariposas directed by Salvatore Mereu (2012). The main feature of these films is the employ of the local idioms - the Barbaricino and Campidanese varieties of Sardinian - alongside popular and regional Italian. Throughout a comparative analysis between novels and film dialogues, the research aims to investigate the most significant language changes in the passage from the literary to the audiovisual medium. The linguistic study of the “new Sardinian cinema” is also stimulating to comprehend the directors’ increasing attention to the Sardinian local dialects and their broadcasting, transmission and conservation. Cinema is subject to entertainment and show business rules, according to the audience’s tastes and interests, but it also mirrors the social, linguistic and cultural reality of the country.