Multilingualism In Italy Past And Present
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Multilingualism in Italy Past and Present
Author | : Anna Laura Lepschy,Arturo Tosi |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : UOM:39015060041889 |
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This inaugural volume in a new series offers an overview of current research in Italian linguistics by specialists in Great Britiain. Topics range from the formation, present state and future prospects of Italian dialects, to the notion of 'standard' in the context of the European tradition. Further contributions cover the different strands of Renaissance Italian, the problem of language death and the presence of Italian as lingua franca in the Mediterranean area. Research into contemporary language includes gender issues in Italian lexicography and the ambivalent 'politically correct' forms referring to minorities. The volume concludes with studies on the translation of legal texts and on the status accorded to different languages within the European Union. The book will be invaluable for university students of Italian or of linguistics and will provide a comprehensive survey for all interested in the Italian language and its history.
Italian Communities Abroad
Author | : Paola Moreno,Margherita Di Salvo |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781527507494 |
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This volume provides an overview of research on Italian communities abroad, and, thus, represents an important contribution to the recent wave of paradigm renewal in the field of migration (socio)linguistics of Italian. The contributors here are some of the most active and rigorous exponents of this renewal tendency, and here they discuss new approaches and paradigms for the sociolinguistic study of migrations.
Language and Society in a Changing Italy
Author | : Arturo Tosi |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853595004 |
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This book examines the interrelation between language and society in contemporary Italy. It aims to provide an up to date account of linguistic diversity, social variation, special codes and language varieties within Italian society, and in situations of language contact both within and outside Italy.
Italo Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy
Author | : Francesco Goglia,Matthias Wolny |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-08-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783030993689 |
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This edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects. Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian as L2 by first-generation immigrants, the maintenance of immigrant languages and code-switching between Italian and the immigrant languages. However, these studies have mostly ignored or neglected to investigate immigrant speakers’ use of Italo-Romance dialects, their awareness of the sociolinguistic situation of majority and minority languages, and their attitudes towards them. Given the important role of Italo-Romance dialects in everyday communication and as a marker of regional identity, this book aims to fill this gap and understand more about the role that these languages play in the linguistic repertoire of immigrants. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, minority languages, multilingualism, migration, and social anthropology.
City Court Academy
Author | : Eva Del Soldato,Andrea Rizzi |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351380300 |
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This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the interplay and dynamic exchange of languages in the Italian peninsula, from the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it examines the flexible linguistic practices of both the social and intellectual elite, and the men and women from the street. The point of departure of this project is the realization that most of the early modern speakers and authors demonstrate strong self-awareness as multilingual communicators. From the foul-mouthed gondolier to the learned humanist, language choice and use were carefully performed, and often justified, in order to overcome (or affirm) linguistic and social differences. The urban social spaces, the princely court, and the elite centres of learning such as universities and academies all shared similar concerns about the value, effectiveness, and impact of languages. As the contributions in this book demonstrate, early modern communicators — including gondoliers, preachers, humanists, architects, doctors of medicine, translators, and teachers—made explicit and argued choices about their use of language. The textual and oral performance of languages—and self-aware discussions on languages—consolidated the identity of early modern Italian multilingual communities.
Globalising Sociolinguistics
Author | : Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317451013 |
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This book challenges the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories by focusing on lesser known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the European Mediterranean, and Slavic regions as well as specific speech communities such as those speaking Nivkh, Jamaican Creole, North Saami, and Central Yup’ik. In nineteen chapters, the specialist authors look at key sociolinguistic aspects of each region or speech community, such as gender, politeness strategies, speech patterns and the effects of social hierarchy on language, concentrating on the differences from mainstream models. The volume, introduced by Miriam Meyerhoff, has been written by the leading expert of each specific region or community and includes contributions by Rajend Mesthrie, Marc Greenberg and Daming Xu. This publication draws together connections across regions/communities and considers how mainstream sociolinguistics is incomplete or lacking. It reveals how lesser-known cultures can play an important role in the building of theory in sociolinguistics. Globalising Sociolinguistics is essential reading for any researcher in sociolinguistics and language variation and will be a key reference for advanced sociolinguistics courses.
Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era
Author | : Professor John Watkins,Professor Kathryn L Reyerson |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472435118 |
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The first full length volume to approach the premodern Mediterranean from a fully interdisciplinary perspective, this collection defines the Mediterranean as a coherent region with distinct patterns of social, political, and cultural exchange. The essays explore the production, modification, and circulation of identities based on religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, and status as free or slave within three distinctive Mediterranean geographies: islands, entrepôts and empires. Individual essays explore such topics as interreligious conflict and accommodation; immigration and diaspora; polylingualism; classical imitation and canon formation; traffic in sacred objects; Mediterranean slavery; and the dream of a reintegrated Roman empire. Integrating environmental, social, political, religious, literary, artistic, and linguistic concerns, this collection offers a new model for approaching a distinct geographical region as a unique site of cultural and social exchange.
A New Language A New World
Author | : Nancy C. Carnevale |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780252090776 |
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An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.