@inbook{10.3138/9781442677401.7,
 ISBN = {9780802037299},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442677401.7},
 abstract = {The title of this chapter consists of two parts. The first part presents a topic (Popular Italian),¹ and the second, in the form of a question, suggests that we should try to decide whether in looking at this topic we are examining questions of fact or dealing with subjective problems of our own creation rather than with objective features belonging to an external reality. The question is only apparently straightforward, even if we leave out the distinction of a more general nature, which seems to dominate contemporary theory, between I and E, that is, Internal and External linguistics. However, although},
 bookauthor = {GIULIO LEPSCHY},
 booktitle = {Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language},
 pages = {49--70},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Popular Italian: Fact or Fiction?},
 year = {2002}
}