Living Memory - The social Aesthetics of Languagein a Northern Italian Town
ISBN: 9781444308273
Platform/Publisher: WOL / Wiley-Blackwell
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Language & Linguistics;

Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.

* 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 language": 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

Jillian R. Cavanaugh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College CUNY. She has published in a range of journals, including Language and Communication, Ethnos , and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology .

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