Comunità bilingui e lingue in contatto. Uno studio sul parlato bilingue in Alto Adige

Ciccolone, Simone

First

;Dal Negro, Silvia

Second

2021-01-01

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Abstract

This volume is the final outcome of a multi-dimensional survey conducted in South Tyrol, concerning language contact in a bilingual community and aimed at capturing its peculiar linguistic and sociolinguistic dynamics. Along with a thorough discussion of the data according to the main theoretical models on code mixing, the analysis of bilingual speech proceeds with a strong orientation towards a usage-based approach and the observation of quantitative distribution of the phenomena within the speech community. The quantitative analysis of the different code mixing patterns is at the core of the discussion proposed in the volume, combining observation of frequency of code-mixed items with their diffusion among the observed bilingual speakers, thus putting into relation emerging patterns in bilingual speech to sociolinguistic factors. A detailed presentation of the methodology and tools used for data collection, corpus building and quantitative analysis gives the reader a short comprehensive guide for similar surveys on other settings and on the creation of bilingual speech corpora.