Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families [electronic resource] : Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation /
Rubino, Antonia,author.
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Transcription Conventions; Introduction; 1 The Context of Italian Migration; 1.1 Italian migration to Australia; 1.1.1 A brief history of Sicilians in Australia; 1.1.2 Life in the Sicilian community; 1.2 Concluding remarks; 2 From Bilingualism in Sicily to Trilingualism in Australia; 2.1 An Italian perspective: dialect vs Italian; 2.2 Changes in Italian and dialect; 2.3 By whom, where and when is Italian rather than dialect spoken?; 2.4 The Sicilian dialects; 2.5 Sicilian-Italian bilingualism in Sicily
2.5.1 Choosing between Italian and Sicilian2.5.2 Italian varieties in Sicily; 2.5.3 Italian-Sicilian bilingual speech; 2.5.4 Attitudes towards Sicilian varieties; 2.5.5 The participants in the linguistic context of Sicily; 2.6 Trilingualism in Australia: Italian, Sicilian and English; 2.6.1 The Italian language in Australia; 2.6.2 The linguistic repertoire of Sicilian-Australians; 2.6.3 Language choice, mixing and switching among Sicilian-Australians; 2.6.4 What Sicilian-Australians think of their talk; 2.7 Italian and dialect in other contexts of Italian migration; 2.8 Concluding remarks
3 Approaches to Multilingual Talk3.1 Analysing multilingualism; 3.1.1 The interactional perspective: Gumperz; 3.1.2 A conversation analytic approach to language alternation: Auer and beyond; 3.1.3 Language alternation in an identity perspective; 3.2 Analysing trilingual talk in the families; 4 Trilingual Talk in Family A; 4.1 The family context and the data; 4.1.1 The family; 4.1.2 The data; 4.2 ''Palliamo mischiato'': self-reporting language choice in the family; 4.3 First-generation talk: the parents and the grandfather; 4.4 Parents'' talk to the children
4.4.1 Bilingual and trilingual talk4.4.2 Language alternation in the mother''s talk to the children; 4.5 Children''s talk to the parents; 4.5.1 Sicilian and Italian as linguistic resources; 4.5.2 Performance talk; 4.6 Mother-children disputes; 4.6.1 Analysing disputes; 4.7 Concluding remarks; 5 Trilingual Talk in Family B; 5.1 Introducing the family; 5.1.1 The family; 5.1.2 The research project and the data; 5.2 Self-reporting language choice in the family; 5.3 First-generation talk; 5.4 Parent-children talk; 5.4.1 Same language preference
5.4.2 Language choice and alternation in parents'' talk to Stephanie5.4.3 Language choice and alternation in Stephanie''s talk to her parents; 5.5 Language alternation as a mediation tool in Stephanie''s talk; 5.5.1 Mediating between the mother and Carmel; 5.5.2 Providing linguistic help; 5.5.3 Facilitating communication with other family members; 5.6 Concluding remarks; 6 From Qualitative to Quantitative Data: Language Choice in the Family; 6.1 The sociology of language approach and the project; 6.2 The sample; 6.2.1 Sociodemographic variables; 6.2.2 Linguistic and sociocultural variables
6.3 Patterns of language choice
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Emigration and immigration.
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied Linguistics.
Migration.
Comparative Linguistics.
Historical Linguistics.