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Title Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings : Challenges for Historical Sociolinguistics / Piera Molinelli
Published Berlin ;Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
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Series Trends in linguistics studies and monographs ; volume 310
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; Volume 310.
Contents Piera Molinelli: Linguistic representations of identity: texts, contexts, and methods in diachronic perspective -- Linguistic representations of identity at the micro-level of linguistic interaction. Carlo Consani and Pierluigi Cuzzolin: Identity in speakers' discourse -- Carla Bruno: Variations of the first person: looking at the Greek private letters of Ptolemaic Egypt -- Chiara Fedriani, Chiara Ghezzi, and Luigi Talamo: Exploring linguistic representations of identity through the discis corpus: evidence from directive acts in Plautus and Goldoni -- Luca Lorenzetti: Greek in Rome around the year 1000 -- Gabriella Mazzon: Code-switching and style-shifting in the Anglophone world: medieval and contemporary identity marking and interaction strategies -- Linguistic representations of identity at the macro-level of the linguistic repertoire. Marina Benedetti, Paolo di Giovine, Flavia Pompeo and Liana Tronci: Identity in the repertoire: a bottom line -- Alessandro de Angelis: Between Greek and Romance: competing complementation systems in Southern Italy -- Margherita Farina: The Syro-Arabic glosses to Barhebraeusa metrical grammar -- Gianguido Manzelli: The lexical influence of Italian on Turkish -- Jesã⁰s de la Villa and Marã¡a Esperanza Torrego: Political background, pragmatics and word order in the text of the Res gestae divi augusti -- Relations between sociolinguistic setting and linguistic data. Giovanna Marotta, Ignazio Putzu, and Margherita Donati: Data from ancient languages and sociolinguistic analysis -- Paolo Martino: Â contrata dicta in lingua Latina scandali, in lingua Greca chandachi, et in lingua Saracenica Alcastaniâ: playing with identities in the multilingual placenames of medieval Sicily -- Immacolata Pinto, Giulio Paulis, and Ignazio Putzu: Morphological productivity in medieval Sardinian: sociolinguistic correlates:. action nouns and adverbs of manner -- Francesca Cotugno and Giovanna Marotta: Geminated consonants in the Vindolanda tablets: empirical data and sociolinguistic remarks -- Identity through orality, identity through literacy. Barbara Turchetta: The writer's identity and identification markers in writing code mixing and interference -- Margherita di Salvo, Laura Mori, and Cristina Muru: The mediterranean community of practices between speaking and writing in early modern documents -- Giuliano Mion: Cypriot Arabic between orality and literacy in O typos ton maroniton -- Giulia Murgia: Aspects of polymorphism in Arborea's Carta de Logu
Summary This book explores the linguistic expression of identity, intended as the social positioning of self and others, by focusing mostly on a scenario of prolonged language contact, namely the ancient Mediterranean area. The volume includes studies on language contact and on identity strategies developed at different levels of analysis, from phonetics to pragmatics, in, among others, Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac, (Cypriot) Arabic, Medieval Sardinian
Analysis Historical Sociolinguistics
Language Contact
Linguistic Identity
Multilingualism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes In English
Subject Language and culture -- Mediterrenean Region
Languages in contact -- Mediterrenean Region
Historical linguistics -- Mediterrenean Region
Sociolinguistics -- Mediterrenean Region
Group identity -- Social aspects -- Mediterrenean Region
Multilingualism -- Mediterrenean Region
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Historical linguistics
Language and culture
Languages in contact
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Molinelli, Piera
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