Living Memory
The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town
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Beschreibung
Living Memory investigates the complex question of languageand its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northernItaly.
* Integrates extensive participant observation withsociolinguistic data collection
* Reveals the political and social dynamics of a nationallanguage (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling forsurvival
* Introduces the original concept of the "socialaesthetics of language": the interweaving ofculturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions oflanguage-choice
* Written to be accessible to students and specialistsalike
* Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and CultureSeries
Autor*in
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Themen in »Living Memory«
Angewandte Linguistik Anthropologie Anthropology Applied Linguistics Historical & Regional Anthropology Historische u. regionale Anthropologie Italien Linguistic Anthropology Linguistics Linguistik Linguistische Anthropologie Norditalien /Sprache Sprachwissenschaften