• 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 languageâ€: 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
Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town
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Author(s)Jillian R. Cavanaugh
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1118277430
ISBN-139781118277430
MarketplaceGermany 🇩🇪
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Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.