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Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

By Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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By Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.

• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection
• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival
• Introduces the original concept of the “social aesthetics of language”: the interweaving of culturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of la...

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Social SciencesAnthropology & ArchaeologySocio-Cultural AnthropologySocio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous