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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827392303321

Autore

Guzzo Siria

Titolo

A sociolinguistic insight into an Italian community in the UK : workplace language as an identity marker / / by Siria Guzzo ; with a preface by David Britain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-7148-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

914.2034

Soggetti

Italians - England - Bedford - Languages

Foreign workers, Italian - England - Bedford

Italians - England - Bedford - Ethnic identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- AUTHORS' NOTE -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Sommario/riassunto

The Italian diaspora throughout the world navigate and negotiate various complex and multidirectional language dynamics. In order to account for the sociolinguistic processes that have taken place, this book provides a detailed observation of these linguistic dynamics from the point of view of the Italian diaspora in Bedford, in the UK. This study on the language behaviour of three generations of Italian residents in Bedford provides empirical data on, and highlights the importance of, the s.