Tullio De Mauro
| Tullio De Mauro | |
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| Italian Minister of Education | |
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In office 25 April 2000 – 11 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Giuliano Amato |
| Preceded by | Luigi Berlinguer |
| Succeeded by | Letizia Moratti |
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| Born |
31 March 1932 Torre Annunziata, Campania |
| Died | 5 January 2017 (aged 84) Rome, Lazio |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
Tullio De Mauro (31 March 1932 – 5 January 2017) was an Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an Italian politician.
He was the younger brother of the journalist Mauro De Mauro who was kidnapped and killed in September 1970, while investigating the Sicilian Mafia.
He was born in Torre Annunziata, Province of Naples. In 1963 he published the monumental Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita ("Linguistic History of Unified Italy"). Two years later De Mauro published L'introduzione alla semantica ("Introduction to Semantics") and, in 1971, Senso e significato.
After preparing the entries on semiotics of the Treccani encyclopedia and publishing the short volume Minisemantica (1982), De Mauro turned to the problem of linguistic education.
De Mauro had been teaching philosophy of language and was director of the Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
In 1975 he has been elected to the Regional Council of Lazio in the lists of PCI. In 1976 he has been appointed commissioner for culture, position he held until 1978.
He was the Minister of Education durung the second Government of Prime Minister Guliano Amato.
From 2001 to 2010 he chaired digital world, the foundation of the city of Rome.
He has collaborated in newspapers and magazines: 1956-1964 with the weekly Il Mondo, from 1966 to 1979 the newspaper Paese Sera, from 1981 to 1990 with regular columns on the school (1981–85) and language (1986 ff.) the weekly L'Espresso. He occasionally collaborated with L'Unità, La Stampa, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Il Sole-24 Ore, Il Mattino and regularly with Internazionale with the headings "The word" since 2006 and "Schools" since 2008.
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