The Relationship of Ethnic Self-Identification of Latter Generations of Louisiana's Sicilian-Americans to Their Use of Ethnic Colloquial Phrases (Studies in Linguistics and Semiotics, 7)

This study examines later generation ethnic Americans, as opposed to recent immigrants and theri sense of ethnic self-identification as it relates to thier use of limited colloquial ethnic phrases and words, as opposed to their fluency in thier ethnic native tongue. It uses coorelational analysis to identify relationships among the language use and ethnic self-identification variables.