Per un'analisi diacronica del paesaggio linguistico: esempi dal Linguistic Lanscape dell'Alto Adige/Südtirol

The Italian landscape is among those most profoundly shaped by history. In fact, a physical environment originally rich in profoundly different contexts has hosted some of the most significant historical events in civilization and culture. In the last 50 years, the landscape of South Tyrol - albeit with a very different history from the rest of Italy - has undergone major transformations, which can be attributed above all to historical-political and sociolinguistic reasons. In this paper, the observation and analysis of the Linguistic Landscape of this autonomous Italian province from a diachronic perspective, from the beginning of the 1970s to the present day, allows us to retrace many of its stages and understand better the transformations which have occurred across the languages and varieties present in the territory. The photos of signs collected in the Corpus LLSüdtirol (2022-2025) will be compared with historical photos of the region, collected by the Touring Club Italiano (TCI) Archive and Photos from a private archive.