Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy

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Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy is written by Francesco Goglia and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 303099368X (ISBN 10) and 9783030993689 (ISBN 13).

This edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects. Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian as L2 by first-generation immigrants, the maintenance of immigrant languages and code-switching between Italian and the immigrant languages. However, these studies have mostly ignored or neglected to investigate immigrant speakers’ use of Italo-Romance dialects, their awareness of the sociolinguistic situation of majority and minority languages, and their attitudes towards them. Given the important role of Italo-Romance dialects in everyday communication and as a marker of regional identity, this book aims to fill this gap and understand more about the role that these languages play in the linguistic repertoire of immigrants. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, minority languages, multilingualism, migration, and social anthropology.