L’immagine dell’Italia nei libri di testo per insegnare italiano a stranieri

In this contribution we will attempt to show, also by using data taken from the largest corpus of images in Italian handbooks for foreigners at present, whether a correlation can be identified between the idea of Italy that we find abroad and what is shown (in images) in the handbooks; in particularly, we aim to verify whether there are choices that correspond to common criteria among the various authors of the works and to what extent the archetypes of Made in Italy are exploited for the construction of their didactic discourse.