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Author Guzzo, Siria

Title Sociolinguistic insight into the Italian community in the UK : workplace language as an identity marker
Published Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Contents 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
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Subject English language -- Dialects -- England -- Bedford
Foreign workers, Italian -- England -- Bedford -- Language
Foreign workers, Italian -- England -- Bedford -- History
English language -- Social aspects -- England -- Bedford
Italians -- England -- Bedford -- Ethnic identity
Language and culture -- England -- Bedford
Sociolinguistics.
Bilingualism & multilingualism.
Language.
Emigration and immigration
English language -- Dialects
English language -- Social aspects
Foreign workers, Italian
Italians -- Ethnic identity
Language and culture
Bedford (England) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
England -- Bedford
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 132260780X
9781322607801
9781443871488
1443871486