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Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

Jillian R. Cavanaugh
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6882-3
Hardcover
272 pages
March 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.

• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection
• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival
• Introduces the original concept of the “social aesthetics of language”: the interweaving of culturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of language-choice
• Written to be accessible to students and specialists alike
• Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

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