Language attitudes among mobile speakers. Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad
| Autor: | Stefania Marzo, Silvia Natale, Stefano De Pascale |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ziegler, Arne, Edler, Stefanie, Oberdorfer, Georg, Linguistics and Literary Studies, Kleczkowski, Nina |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Marzo, Stefania; Natale, Silvia; De Pascale, Stefano (2021). Language attitudes among mobile speakers. Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad. In: Ziegler, Arne; Edler, Stefanie; Oberdorfer, Georg (eds.) Urban matters. Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics. Studies in Language Variation (pp. 119-140). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Urban Matters ISBN: 9789027210135 Urban Matters |
| Popis: | This paper explores the variability of belief systems that underpin standardization dynamics by investigating the effect of international mobility on attitudes of Italians towards standard and regional Italian. Research has shown that standard Italian is converging toward spoken or regional varieties, leading to the emergence of neo-standard Italian. While previous studies focused exclusively on Italians in Italy, we investigate how attitudes towards neo-standard Italian develop for Italians abroad. A matched-guise experiment carried out with Italian speakers living in Switzerland and Belgium is compared to an experiment carried out in Italy. Our results show a change in the social meaning of standardization among mobile communities, as Italians living abroad seem to neutralize the prestige that Italians in Italy attach to Milanese Italian and instead upgrade Neapolitan Italian, which had been downgraded by young Italians in the previous experiment. ispartof: Urban Matters. Current Approaches of International Sociolinguistic Research (Studies in Language Variation). pages:119-140 ispartof: Studies in Language Variation vol:27 pages:119-140 status: published |
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