Multilingualism in Italian Migrant Settings

Luca Iezzi is a postdoctoral fellow at “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). His major research interests include the sociolinguistics of immigration in Italy, contact phenomena in spoken and written communication, as well as maintenance and shift of minority languages in societal and educational contexts. He has authored various research articles and book chapters on these topics. He has also taught English, and holds several Cambridge TESOL certifications.

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION: Beyond borders: global changes and linguistic challenges in migratory contextsCHAPTER 1: The European migrant crisis1.1 Migrations and migratory policies in Europe1.2 Unauthorised migrations in Italy1.3 Migration and languageCHAPTER 2: The sociolinguistics of (im)migration2.1 Multilingualism, speech community, and repertoires2.2 The sociolinguistics of (im)migration across time and space2.3 Multilingualism in postcolonial countries2.4 Status and function of a language2.4.1 Geopolitical factors2.4.2 Socio-demographical factors2.4.3 Linguistic factors2.5 Language ideologies and attitudesCHAPTER 3: Language contact 3.1 Language maintenance and shift3.2 Contact in speech3.2.1 Structural approaches to CS3.2.2 Functional approaches to CS3.3 From CS to grammaticalisation3.4 Contact in language3.4.1 Matter replication3.4.2 At the boundary between switching and matter replication3.4.3 Pattern replication3.5 Structure, function and cognition: the usage-based approachCHAPTER 4: Linguistic ethnography and multilingualism 4.1 Objectives of the research4.1.1 Research methods4.2 Data transcription4.2.1 Language transcription4.2.2 Graphic and phonetic correspondences4.2.3 Morphemic glossing4.3 The pilot study4.3.1 The CAS4.3.2 Methodology4.3.3 Data analysis4.3.4 Discussion4.4 The main study4.4.1 Informants and linguistic biographies4.4.2 Other subjectsCHAPTER 5: The urban variety of Punjabi5.1 Population in Pakistan5.2 The languages of the Pakistan5.2.1 English, the conquerors’ language5.2.2 The privileging of Urdu as national language5.2.3 Urdu and Punjabi5.3 Urban Punjabi5.3.1 Borrowing vs CS5.3.2 Instances of switching phenomena within the urban variety5.4 DiscussionCHAPTER 6: Italian within the speech community 6.1 Code choice in the CAS (centro di accoglienza straordinaria)6.2 Instances of code mixing within the urban variety6.3 DiscussionCHAPTER 7: Ideologies and attitudes 7.1 Language proficiency in the CAS(centro di accoglienza straordinaria)7.2 Interviews7.3 Ideologies and attitudes7.3.1 Urdu7.3.2 English7.3.3 Italian7.3.4 Minority languages7.4 Some reflections on the linguistic repertoire of the migrantsCONCLUSIONS: Beyond challenge: understanding multilingualism in a time of changeReferencesAppendix I: QuestionnaireAppendix II: GDPRIndex