Living Memory

The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

Jillian R. Cavanaugh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2009
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-6882-3 (ISBN)

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Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy. As in other multilingual nation-states in Europe and elsewhere, linguistic revival and survival represent the promise of local solidarity, but also a threat to larger social and political relationships and unification.

Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.
• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection
• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival
• Introduces the original concept of the “social aesthetics of language”: the interweaving of culturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of language-choice
• Written to be accessible to students and specialists alike
• Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

Jillian R. Cavanaugh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College CUNY. She has published in a range of journals, including Language and Communication, Ethnos, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

Series Editor’s Preface.

Preface. Constructing Transcripts: Orthographic Conventions and Transcription Processes.

1. Introduction.

2. Bergamasco in Use: The Feel of Everyday Speaking.

3. Gendering Language.

4. Bergamasco on Stage: Poetry and Theater.

5. Modern Campanilismo: The Value of Place.

6. Bergamo, Italy, Europe: Speaking Contextualized.

7. Conclusion.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4051-6882-X / 140516882X
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-6882-3 / 9781405168823
Zustand	Neuware