HETEROGLOT ITALIAN IN INTERACTION WITH ITALOPHONES IN ESTONIA: REVERSALS OF CODE ALTERNATION The presence of the Italian language in Estonia is a recent and quantitatively limited phenomenon: only since the beginning of the new millennium has the Baltic country become an attractive destination for young Italian speakers looking for an unusual and cosmopolitan destination, attractive for its technological and ecological primates. However, Italian in Estonia is not only the language of Italian speakers: mainly through them or in any case within their relational networks, especially but not only in mixed family contexts, it is known by people of different mother tongues who practice it at least occasionally, as a heteroglot code. After presenting the main evidence emerging from a sociolinguistic investigation, the contribution focuses on the analysis of the phenomena of alternation between Italian and the other languages present in the area. The discussion of examples collected through direct observation of natural conversations between couples, families and linguistically mixed groups draws attention to cases of reversal that occur when speakers’ expectations are disregarded because within a conversation Italian is suddenly replaced by another language or, on the contrary, is unexpectedly introduced.
La presenza dell’italiano in Estonia è fenomeno recente e quantitativamente limitato: soltanto dall’inizio del nuovo millennio il Paese baltico è diventato meta desiderabile per giovani italofoni alla ricerca di una destinazione inconsueta e cosmopolitica, attrattiva per i suoi primati tecnologici ed ecologici. L’italiano in Estonia non è però soltanto la lingua degli italofoni: principalmente per il loro tramite o comunque nell’ambito delle loro reti relazionali - soprattutto ma non soltanto nei contesti familiari misti - è conosciuto da persone di differente lingua materna che lo praticano almeno occasionalmente, come codice eteroglotto. Dopo aver presentato le principali evidenze emerse da un’inchiesta sociolinguistica, il contributo si concentra sull’analisi dei fenomeni di alternanza tra l’italiano e le altre lingue presenti sul territorio. La discussione di esempi raccolti attraverso l’osservazione diretta di conversazioni naturali fra coppie, nuclei familiari e gruppi linguisticamente misti colloca il focus sui casi di rovesciamento che si verificano quando le aspettative del parlante italofono sono disattese perché l’italiano adottato come codice-base viene dall’interlocutore sostituito con altra lingua o al contrario è inaspettatamente introdotto.
L’ITALIANO ETEROGLOTTO NELL’INTERAZIONE CON ITALOFONI IN ESTONIA: ROVESCIAMENTI DELL’ALTERNANZA DI CODICE
Revelli, Luisa
2023-01-01
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HETEROGLOT ITALIAN IN INTERACTION WITH ITALOPHONES IN ESTONIA: REVERSALS OF CODE ALTERNATION The presence of the Italian language in Estonia is a recent and quantitatively limited phenomenon: only since the beginning of the new millennium has the Baltic country become an attractive destination for young Italian speakers looking for an unusual and cosmopolitan destination, attractive for its technological and ecological primates. However, Italian in Estonia is not only the language of Italian speakers: mainly through them or in any case within their relational networks, especially but not only in mixed family contexts, it is known by people of different mother tongues who practice it at least occasionally, as a heteroglot code. After presenting the main evidence emerging from a sociolinguistic investigation, the contribution focuses on the analysis of the phenomena of alternation between Italian and the other languages present in the area. The discussion of examples collected through direct observation of natural conversations between couples, families and linguistically mixed groups draws attention to cases of reversal that occur when speakers’ expectations are disregarded because within a conversation Italian is suddenly replaced by another language or, on the contrary, is unexpectedly introduced.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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