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Community and space in Italian sociolinguistics. The experience of the <i>Linguistic Atlas of Sicily</i> (<i>Atlante Linguistico de…
2018
Our paper focuses on the notions of ‘space’ and ‘community’ within the most recent developments of Italian sociolinguistics. This research area has roots in the tradition of Italian geolinguistic studies and has been enhanced by other research traditions. In fact, Italian sociolinguistics has reused the relationship between ‘community’ and ‘space’ investigated in the early twentieth century by Benvenuto Terracini’s (1886–1968) seminal studies on ‘minimal linguistic point’ (‘punto linguistico minimo’) and on ‘community of speakers’. Since the 1970s and, with more weight, in the last decades, some important contributions coming from scholars such as Alberto Sobrero, Tullio Telmon and Giovanni…
Foundations of language perceptions and the role of external factors: a Norwegian case
2009
Non-linguists' perceptions of language in use are generally considered to be strongly influenced by evaluative factors: attitudes, values and ideology. Such a perspective represents a somewhat biased approach to ordinary people's knowledge about language, which is characteristic of both sociolinguistics and its sub-branch, perceptual dialectology. This paper presents an alternative approach, which comprised interviewing 44 Norwegian informants about language spoken locally. The data from the interviews suggests that external (i.e. non-mental) factors play a prominent role in the formation of their perceptions of language. Firstly, observations of language in use seem to be of great importan…
Rappresentare le spazialità complesse. L’esperienza dell’ALS (Atlante linguistico della Sicilia)
2016
Dans cet article, nous nous occuperons des données quantitatives et qualitatives recueillies durant les vingt-cinq dernières années en Sicile. Ces données ont été collectées dans le cadre d’une enquête sur le terrain de grande ampleur qui a intéressé la Sicile entière dans le contexte des activités de l’Atlas linguistique de la Sicile (ALS). En particulier, nous observerons les données sur la perception et sur la représentation des différences linguistiques recueillies à travers trois questions du questionnaire ALS. Nous présenterons aussi une proposition de cartographie pluridimensionnelle de ces données. Pour l’analyse, l’interprétation et la cartographie des données nous avons élaboré un…