Title 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

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

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Description 1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations, tables Contents Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- AUTHORS' NOTE -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY Summary 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 sociolinguistic examination of English in service encounters. What comes to light in most of the cases an Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015) Subject Italians -- England -- Bedford -- Languages Foreign workers, Italian -- England -- Bedford Italians -- England -- Bedford -- Ethnic identity TRAVEL -- Europe -- General. Foreign workers, Italian Italians -- Ethnic identity Italians -- Languages England -- Bedford Form Electronic book Author Britain, David, author of introduction, etc ISBN 9781443871488 1443871486

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