A new language, a new world
Subtitle: Italian immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945
By: Nancy C. Carnevale.
Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island centennial series
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780252034039
Subjects: Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Italian Americans -- Languages; Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Immigrants -- United States -- Language; Sociolinguistics -- United States -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Italian languages in Italy and America; title: Linguistic boundaries in American history; title: "He could not explain things the way I tell it" : the immigrant in translation; title: The world turned upside down in Farfariello's theater of language; title: The identity politics of language : Italian language maintenance in New York City, 1920-40; title: Language, Italian American identity, and the limits of cultural pluralism in the World War II years.