{"title":"Migration, language, and variation: the challenge of foreign speakers to detect Italian linguistic varieties","authors":"Camilla Masullo","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.567","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decades, Italy has been affected by new migratory waves which enriched its varied sociolinguistic landscape. If on one hand Italy has been dealing with the integration of new immigrants in the society, on the other foreign immigrants need to cope with the extreme sociolinguistic complexity which defines the Italian linguistic reality. The present study aims to examine how foreign speakers perceive regional linguistic variation of Italy. A perceptive experiment was conducted on 44 foreign respondents to test their linguistic perception of six regional Italian varieties. Results showed that Italian’s explicit learning helps linguistic comprehension, but it is not enough to grasp differences between regional varieties of Italian, and this could cause comprehension difficulties for the unrepresented varieties in Italian language programs. We suggest that the enhancement of Italian regional varieties’ representation could foster new immigrants’ integration in the welcome society.","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":" 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138994878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A sociophonetic analysis of rhotic variation in Italian schoolchildren","authors":"Martina Rossi, Lucia Sbacco","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.570","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the production of Italian rhotics in the speech of 75 schoolchildren (6-10 years old) in the area of Biella, in the North-West of Italy. As rhotics are subject to a high degree of variation in Italian, their distribution and phonetic realisations were taken into account to test the influence of linguistic and sociolinguistic variables, i.e., phonological context, age and migratory background of the children’s families. Results show that children’s production varies across contexts and ages, as older subjects’ patterns of variation seem to be approaching the distribution and the characteristics that would be expected in the target. Moreover, we propose that the migratory backgrounds and, in particular, the different Heritage Languages present in the children’s repertoires, might be explanatory to the high degree of variability observed, e.g., in subjects of the same age.","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":"134 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139175080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Serianni e la Storia dell’italiano scritto","authors":"L. Tomasin","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.580","url":null,"abstract":"Ricordo di Luca Serianni e della sua collaborazione alla Storia dell'italiano scritto (SIS)","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":"15 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139175754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tra etnolinguistica e pragmatica: i complimenti tra i migranti sardi a Biella","authors":"M. Castagneto","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.574","url":null,"abstract":"Questo lavoro analizza un corpus di complimenti tra migranti sardi di prima generazione a Biella, con un’età media di 75 anni. Gli informanti hanno scelto compattamente le stesse risposte, seguendo specifici pattern conversazionali e agendo come “players in a ritual game” (Goffman, 1967). Il loro comportamento rispetta il modello di politeness del “Social Contract of Values” (Mursy & Wilson, 2001) stipulato tra gli individui e la società, per cui il complimento risponde alla Massima di Generosità sancita dalle norme sociali: ad un’offerta di cibo si risponde con un complimento, e al complimento con una nuova offerta di cibo. I complimenti non vengono mai rifiutati, ma in qualche caso li si deve ignorare, quando toccano degli argomenti tabù come i bambini piccoli o il cibo in preparazione, su cui potrebbero gettare malocchio. Fare complimenti su questi topic è una mancanza di rispetto, e una violazione del Social Contract of Values, per cui nessuna azione rimediale è possibile sul piano conversazionale.","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":"41 S189","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138965320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Luca Serianni e il sereno vaglio critico","authors":"C. Marazzini","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.577","url":null,"abstract":"Un ricordo di Luca Serianni, con alcune memorie personali.","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138994871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carlos López Cortezo, La estructura moral del \"Infierno\" de Dante","authors":"Fernando Molina Castillo","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":"15 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Italo Calvino. I giorni di Barcellona","authors":"Francesco Luti","doi":"10.5565/rev/qdi.608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.608","url":null,"abstract":"Il presente contributo vuole offrire una persuasiva sintesi del vincolo che Italo Calvino ebbe con Barcellona e con gli intellettuali, gli scrittori e gli uomini legati al mondo editoriale della città. Partendo dal 1959, quando realizzò il suo primo viaggio in Spagna per partecipare alle giornate di Formentor, evidenzieremo quanto fu decisiva la sua presenza e sotto quali aspetti. Ci serviremo di documenti inediti, tra i quali lettere degli archivi editoriali di Einaudi e di Seix Barral, utili a comporre il mosaico dei rapporti che costituirono le fondamenta del ponte letterario tra Spagna e Italia che si consolidò nei due decenni successivi. Dedicheremo la seconda parte del testo al ritorno di Calvino a Barcellona nel 1980 per partecipare alle “Jornadas” organizzate dalla casa editrice Bruguera, riassumendo il suo apporto. Infine, sveleremo che Juan Carlos Onetti sarebbe potuto diventare un protagonistadi uno dei testi di Palomar. ","PeriodicalId":299658,"journal":{"name":"Quaderns d’Italià","volume":"17 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138995316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}