Corpus PINO: A spoken language resource for multiple simultaneous comparisons

The conclusions drawn for the portion of the Italian continuum PINO targets, then, can be used for cross-linguistic comparison with similar continua where quantitative evidence is already available. PINO is also a contribution to the preservation of the local cultural heritage and of a minority language, i.e., an italo-romance dialect. It attests the lives, memories, opinions, traditions, practices, attitudes of fifty members of this community, thus photographing these aspects in a specific moment in time – a post-postmodern society where the tension between global and local plays a pivotal role – and in a place – the province of Naples area – often framed in terms of contradictions, polyvalency, and exceptionality.

Hence, Corpus PINO might be used not only for strictly linguistic or discourse analysis, but for more sociological-based works as well.