Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy

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.

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction (Francesco Goglia & Matthias Wolny).- Chapter 2. Palermo 2000-2020: Sicilian in old and new migrations (Mari D'Agostino & Egle Mocciaro).- Chapter 3. Neapolitan, regional and standard Italian in the linguistic repertoire of Ukrainian private carers in Naples. Sociolinguistic competence and attitudes towards a complex linguistic context (Paolo Della Putta).- Chapter 4. The linguistic repertoires of immigrant school children in Udine: a sociolinguistic study (Fabiana Fusco).- Chapter 5. Immigrant new speakers of Veneto dialect: the case of Igbo-Nigerians in Padua (Francesco Goglia).- Chapter 6. Ghanaian immigrants and the twofold potential of Italo-Romance dialects (Federica Guerini).- Chapter 7. Language attitudes of Cameroonian immigrants towards Italian dialects (Raymond Siebetcheu).- Chapter 8. The Senegalese diaspora in Rome: Romanesco and other nonstandard varieties in the face of standard language ideologies (Maya Angela Smith).- Chapter 9. Immigrants as new speakers of Italo-romance dialects. A study of sociolinguistic representations in the Emilia-Romagna region (Valeria Villa-Perez).- Chapter 10. The Venetian dialect in the communicative repertoires of Moldovan migrant caregivers (Matthias Wolny).