Jillian R. Cavanaugh, "Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town"
English | ISBN: 140516882X | 2009 | 272 pages | PDF | 1031 KB
English | ISBN: 140516882X | 2009 | 272 pages | PDF | 1031 KB
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