The conceptual scaffolding of the book also could have been enriched by treating in greater depth the new interpretations of modernizing tendencies that reached the Hispanic world toward the end of the seventeenth century and by including a discussion and application to the Mexican case of such concepts as
Italianization (as seen from the perspective of traditional Hispanic historiography as an unacceptable foreign invasion) or Italianism, a more subtle process that did not necessarily require the physical presence of Italian musicians and involved various strategies of aesthetic modernization driven by new preferences of private patrons, institutions, and listeners (see Andrea Bombi, Entre tradicion y modernidad: El italianismo musical en Valencia (1685-1738), 2 vols.
With respect to age, the expectation would be that, all other parameters being equal, younger speakers show a higher tendency for linguistic innovation, which, in our case, would include a greater use of Italian (or a higher degree of
Italianization of the dialect) (Grassi et al.
Italianization (or Mediterraneanization) of the Polish media system.
Three years following the annexation in 1919, Mussolini's Fascist government began the forced
Italianization the region by attracting large numbers of Italians, mainly from the South, to settle in the area (similar to the policy adopted by the Chinese in today's Tibet).
Convinced that the task of gradual
Italianization of the new populations could only take place through the education of the people, he followed with particular interest the problem of the primary schools (6).
Dobek-Ostrowska, Boguslawa (2012)
Italianization of the Polish Media System?
The 'lingua media', in which practically all Italians are now able to communicate, spread gradually throughout society, following a lengthy process of
Italianization of a country made up largely of dialect speakers in the years of unification.
naturalized, as shown symbolically by the
italianization of
The Americanization of Israeli politics in the 1990s, which introduced political consultants and the media circus, has been followed by its
Italianization. How long will it be before Israeli politicians follow the example of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi by choosing beauty queens for their party lists?
Still, the rise of Italian Fascism in the 1920s quickly insisted on the
Italianization of seemingly German or Slavic names; hence we meet Castelli first as a Krausz, then bringing in his mother's maiden name to become Krausz-Castelli, and finally as Castelli tout court when he is placed in uncongenial banking or insurance posts owing to a network of family alliances.
This artificial
italianization, according to Pasolini, limits the credibility of the narrator as a vox populi making him "absurdly liberal and nationalistic at the same time," a spokesperson for Pascarella's own "bourgeois patriotism, anticlericalism and nostalgia" (52).
Opponents described the clerics' behavior as "
Italianization."