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Chiara e Benedetta hanno avuto il piacere di partecipare alla prima 'LiME Conference on Language Variation' (LiCLA 1), ospitata dal Meertens Instituut di Amsterdam, dove hanno presentato il poster di ricerca “The social meaning of morpho-syntactic variation in contemporary Italian: on the role of mobility in language change”, scritto in collaborazione con i supervisori Stefania Marzo, Silvia Natale e Stefano De Pascale.
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Language attitudes among mobile speakers:
Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad
Stefania Marzo, Silvia Natale, & Stefano De Pascale
This paper explores the variability of belief systems that underpin standardiza-tion dynamics by investigating the effect of international mobility on attitudes of Italians towards standard and regional Italian. Research has shown that standard Italian is converging toward spoken or regional varieties, leading to the emergence of neo-standard Italian. While previous studies focused exclusively on Italians in Italy, we investigate how attitudes towards neo-standard Italian develop for Italians abroad. A matched-guise experiment carried out with Italian speakers living in Switzerland and Belgium is compared to an experiment car-ried out in Italy. Our results show a change in the social meaning of standardi-zation among mobile communities, as Italians living abroad seem to neutralize the prestige that Italians in Italy attach to Milanese Italian and instead upgrade Neapolitan Italian, which had been downgraded by young Italians in the previ-ous experiment
​Marzo, S., Natale, S. & De Pascale, S. (2021). Language attitudes among mobile speakers: Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad. In A. Ziegler, S. Edler & G. Oberdorfer (Ed.), Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics (pp. 119-140). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
​Standard and neo-standard in mobile communities.
The case of German-speaking Switzerland
Silvia Natale & Stefania Marzo
This paper seeks to address if restandardization dynamics unfold in a migratory setting. The study takes as a test case the double standard situation of contemporary Italian and aims to ascertain to which extent the linguistic repertoire of Italian speakers living abroad remains stable. To this end, we explored the linguistic repertoire of Italian speakers living in German-speaking Switzerland by combining two approaches. A qualitative survey analysis of reported language use showed that migration does not seem to affect the configuration of the Italian varieties in their repertoire. This stability was further investigated in a variationist corpus analysis of 18 syntactic and morphological standard and neo-standard features, in which we measured the role of duration of migration and age. An exploratory Principle Component Analysis does not yet provide a clear indication of stability or change. However, it does suggest that both duration of migration and age may affect the distribution of standard and neo-standard features.
Natale, S., & Marzo, S. (2023). Standard and Neo-standard in mobile communities. The case of German-speaking Switzerland. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 35 (1), 213-232.