Matrisciano, Sara, di Salvo, Margherita. 2018. "Il dialetto di Campobasso è su per giù come il napoletano": Neapolitan as Linguistic Identity Marker in the Construction of the Transnational Identity of Southern Italian Immigrants in the UK. Diaspore Italiane: Transnationalism and Questions of Identity, New York, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 01.11.-03.11.
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Abstract
In the context of transnational migration, migrants often (re-)construct their identities through a process of cultural hybridization, which involves linguistic references. In our talk, we will present the analysis of one hundred sociolinguistic interviews with first- and second-generation Italian immigrants from all Southern Italian regions who live in the U.K. Our data show that, in the transnational context, the migrants have adapted to their local identity at a macro-regional level and use Neapolitan, the local language of Naples, for cultural and (partial) linguistic identification. An imagined closeness to the napoletanità, therefore, becomes a symbol of southern Italian italianità.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium |
Language | English |
Title | "Il dialetto di Campobasso è su per giù come il napoletano": Neapolitan as Linguistic Identity Marker in the Construction of the Transnational Identity of Southern Italian Immigrants in the UK |
Event | Diaspore Italiane: Transnationalism and Questions of Identity |
Year | 2018 |
Date | 01.11.-03.11. |
Country | United States/USA |
Location | New York |
URL | https://www.diasporeitaliane.com/new-york-november-2018/draft-program |
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- People
- Matrisciano, Sara (Details)
- External
- di Salvo, Margherita (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
- Organization
- Institute for Romance Languages IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 6612 Dialectology (Details)
- 6615 Romance studies (Details)
- 6623 Sociolinguistics (Details)