Cavanaugh Living Memory

The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0828-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture

Living Memory investigates the complex question of languageand its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northernItaly.
* Integrates extensive participant observation withsociolinguistic data collection
* Reveals the political and social dynamics of a nationallanguage (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling forsurvival
* Introduces the original concept of the "socialaesthetics of language": the interweaving ofculturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions oflanguage-choice
* Written to be accessible to students and specialistsalike
* Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and CultureSeries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface vi
Preface viii
Constructing Transcripts: Orthographic Conventions andTranscription 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.