Tullio De Mauro

Tullio De Mauro was born in Torre Annunziata, Naples in 1932. He is an Italian linguist. 1963 saw the publication of the monumental Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita (Linguistic history of united Italy). Two years later De Mauro published L'introduzione alla semantica (Laterza). In 1971 his work on Senso e significato was published. After preparing the entries on semiotics of the Treccani encyclopedia and publishing the short volume Minisemantica (Laterza, 1982), De Mauro turned to the problem of linguistic education. Other important works are: Guida all'uso delle parole (1987); De Mauro teaches Philosophy of Language and is director of the Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

He is the younger brother of the journalist Mauro De Mauro who was kidnapped and killed in September 1970, investigating the Sicilian Mafia.

Among his published works

*Ludwig Wittgenstein, (Dordrecht 1966);
*Scuola e linguaggio, (1977,1978);
*Parlare italiano, (1973);

The introduction and commentary for Corso di linguistica generale by F. de Saussure (1967, 1989).