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Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

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Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town - Cavanaugh, Jillian R.
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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 ...

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Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town 2012, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken

ISBN-13: 9781118277430

Paperback

Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town 2009, Wiley-Blackwell

ISBN-13: 9781405168823

Hardcover