Living Memory
The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town
Published on 28. June 2012
224 pages
978-1-118-47988-9 (ISBN)
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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
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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.
Content
Series Editor's Preface vi
Preface viii
Constructing Transcripts: Orthographic Conventions andTranscription Processes xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. Bergamasco in Use: The Feel of Everyday Speaking 27
3. Gendering Language 64
4. Bergamasco on Stage: Poetry and Theater 83
5. Modern Campanilismo: The Value of Place 120
6. Bergamo, Italy, Europe: Speaking Contextualized 156
7. Conclusion 189
Notes 206
References 216
