essay
Politeness and languages in contact: Italians in Toronto
their languages, literature, and lives: proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 1987 • Staten Island, N.y. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 43-50
By: Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study describes the development of a unique variation of the Italian language called 'italiese' among the Italian Canadian inhabitants of Toronto, Canada. This language may be classified as a kind of koine used by people from different dialect backgrounds, the dialects of which are '…stripped of their phonetic, grammatical and lexical peculiarities, injected with a good dose of English and put on a skeleton of Italian grammar' (p. 43). In this article the author illustrates the reciprocal influences that languages exhibit when in contact with one another in the use of italiese in the expression of greetings, etiquette, and apologies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Language
- Linguistic identification
- Etiquette
- Ethics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jana Vizmuller-Zocco
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 49-50)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90083301
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada