New Migrations, New Multilingual Practices, New Identities
The Case of Post-2008 Italian Migrants in London
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This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants’ trajectories and their relation with their homeland’s migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies.
Giulia Pepe is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Westminster, UK.
This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants’ trajectories and their relation with their homeland’s migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies.
Examines contemporary Italian migration from a socio-cultural linguistic perspective Gives voice to an under-studied group of migrants Combines an ethnography of speaking with an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) framework
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Giulia Pepe
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“This book explores the construction of identity through translanguaging among post-2008 Italian migrants to London, while addressing a gap in knowledge about their linguistic repertoires.” (Coirle Magee, Language in Society, Vol. 53 (1), February, 2024)
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