The article discusses the main premises of Tomasz Kaczmarek’s and Anna Jarosz’s lexicon: Il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polaccodel teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of the language of artistic performances, like theatre, cinema, radio, television. The authors rely on the concept of language of the artistic performance as a field at the crossroads of several codes (verbal, visual, sound, gestural) interacting on stage. This interdisciplinary publication has an encyclopedic value, but also synthesizes theoretical and historical knowledge in the above-mentioned scope.

The article discusses the main premises of Tomasz Kaczmarek’s and Anna Jarosz’s lexicon: Il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polaccodel teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of the language of artistic performances, like theatre, cinema, radio, television. The authors rely on the concept of language of the artistic performance as a field at the crossroads of several codes (verbal, visual, sound, gestural) interacting on stage. This interdisciplinary publication has an encyclopedic value, but also synthesizes theoretical and historical knowledge in the above-mentioned scope.