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Advertising to Italian English Bilinguals in Australia: Attitudes and Response to Language Selection
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Santello, Marco – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article explores attitudes and response to language selection in advertising targeting Italian bilinguals who belong to a defined speech community. The research builds upon (i) research on multilingual advertising by investigating its attitudinal correlates, and (ii) studies on advertising to bilinguals through the verification of the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Attitudes, Language Fluency, Italian
Code-Mixing and Language Dominance: Bilingual, Trilingual and Multilingual Children Compared
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Poeste, Meike; Müller, Natascha; Arnaus Gil, Laia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
Acquisitionists generally assume a relation between code-mixing in young bilingual and trilingual children and language dominance. In our cross-sectional study we investigated the possible relation between code-mixing and language dominance in 122 children raised in Spain or Germany. They were bilingual, trilingual or multilingual, the latter…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Italian, Ukrainian or Russian? Language and Identity in Crimea
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Bocale, Paola – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper presents the results of fieldwork conducted among the small Italian minority living in Kerch, a coastal town in Crimea, between 2012 and 2013. After introducing the socio-historical background and the current situation of the minority, it presents and discusses the attitudes of members of the community towards the different languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Native Language, Language Dominance
Exploring the Bilingualism of a Migrant Community through Language Dominance
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Santello, Marco – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study outlines a linguistic profile of two subgroups of Italian English circumstantial bilinguals - one dominant in English and the other dominant in Italian--by exploring for the first time their linguistic repertoire through the Gradient Bilingual Dominance Scale (Dunn & Fox Tree, 2009). The scale takes into account language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Immigrants
Non-Standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian
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Chan, Lionel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation examines the acquisition of object clitic placement in Standard Italian by heritage speakers (HSs) of non-standard Italian dialects. It compares two different groups of Standard Italian learners--Northern Italian dialect HSs and Southern Italian dialect HSs--whose heritage dialects contrast with each other in clitic word order.…
Descriptors: Italian, Nonstandard Dialects, Native Language, Standard Spoken Usage
Once a Broker, Always a Broker: Non-Professional Interpreting as Identity Accomplishment in Multigenerational Italian-English Bilingual Family Interaction
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Del Torto, Lisa M. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper explores interpreting in three-generational Italian-English bilingual families as a complex language brokering activity. Recent studies approach non-professional interpreting as language brokering in which bilinguals (often children) interpret for non-bilinguals (adults) in institutional settings (Hall 2004; Valdes 2003). These studies…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Children, Italian, English