Naslov
The Italophone Reefs in the Croatophone Sea

Autori
Blagoni, Robert ; Poropat Jeletic, Nada ; Blecich, Kristina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Bilingual Landscape of the Contemporary World

Urednik/ci
Grucza, S. ; Olpińska-Szkiełko, M. ; Romanowski, P.

Izdavač
Peter Lang

Grad
Frankfurt : Berlin : Bern : Bruxelles : New York (NY) : Oxford : Beč

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
11-36

ISBN
978-3631667606

Ključne riječi
Sociolinguistics of Istria, Bilingualism, Diglossia, Polyglossia, Linguistic insularity
(sociolinguistics of Istria, bilingualism, diglossia, polyglossia, linguistic insularity)

Sažetak
The aim of the paper is to describe the sociolinguistic, diasystemic and heteroglossic specificities of the unique multilingual Istrian macrosystem, with special reference to the italophone repertoire characterized by functional bilingualism. The status of the Italian national community (INC) and the Italian language in Istria is determined by the historical presence of the autochthonous italophone community and the durability of institutional recognition of the Italian language as the language of the social environment. Social interactions are shaped by double diglossic or imperfectly polyglossic relationships implying a complementary sociolinguistic distribution and hierarchic distinction between Croatian, the (first) official high code with undeniable social prestige, covering almost all the entire range of functional communication ; Italian, the (second) official high code (or medium variety) without ethnolinguistic vitality, covering only certain limited formal interactional situations ; and Istrovenetian, the (unofficial) low variety with very high ethnolinguistic prestige, considered to be the L1 of the members of the INC and the primary code of their community identification.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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