Overview
- Draws on original corpora of material gathered through a wide range of field methods
- Compares the different realities, findings and settings of immigrants’ contact with Italo-Romance dialects
- Includes examinations of ten geographical and social contexts from across Italy's regions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities (PSMLC)
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Francesco Goglia is Associate Professor of Migration and Multilingualism at the University of Exeter, UK.
Matthias Wolny is PhD Candidate at the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy
Editors: Francesco Goglia, Matthias Wolny
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99368-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99367-2Published: 18 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99370-2Published: 19 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99368-9Published: 17 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-5880
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5899
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Italian, Minority Languages, Migration, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Social Anthropology