Living Memory (eBook)

The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

Jillian R. Cavanaugh (Autor)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0828-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410785.html"
target="_blank">Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Series

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Series Editor's Preface vi

Preface viii

Constructing Transcripts: Orthographic Conventions and
Transcription Processes xiii

1. Introduction 1

2. Bergamasco in Use: The Feel of Everyday Speaking 27

3. Gendering Language 64

4. Bergamasco on Stage: Poetry and Theater 83

5. Modern Campanilismo: The Value of Place 120

6. Bergamo, Italy, Europe: Speaking Contextualized 156

7. Conclusion 189

Notes 206

References 216

Rezensionen

"An engaging study of the kinds of tensions and paradoxes that make
so many minority language situations such nail biters: will
conscious effort to revalorize a flagging vernacular strengthen it
or kill it? Does highlighting the language's cultural
heritage revitalize it or turn it into an attractive but irrelevant
museum piece? 'Living Memory' beautifully documents the
complex and delicate situation of a stubborn Italian dialect. In
doing so, it helps us understand the role language plays in
contemporary debates about identity, belonging, citizenship and
rapid social change."

-Don Kulick, author of Language Shift and Cultural
Reproduction

"Living Memory is a very solid piece of academic work on
language maintenance, shift, linguistic ideologies and cultural
dynamics in an Italian region and town. It makes a significant
contribution to linguistic anthropology."

-Lukas D Tsitsipis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

"With empathetic eye and ear, Cavanaugh places Bergamo's
committed "locophonophiles," lovers of speaking -- as well as
eating -- locally, in the relevant contexts of the wider cultural
politics of European and Italian regionalism at the
turn-of-the-21st-century."

-Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.9.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropologie • Anthropology • Historical & Regional Anthropology • Historische u. regionale Anthropologie • Italien • Linguistic Anthropology • Linguistik • Linguistische Anthropologie • Norditalien /Sprache
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0828-9 / 1444308289
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0828-0 / 9781444308280