Silvia Dal Negro
Biographic Data
| ID | 991587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Dal Negro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia Dal |
| FAMILY NAME | Negro |
| SIGNATURE | NEGRO S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4294-0565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pragmatic functions and phonetic reduction: Cioè and cè in contemporary spoken Italian
This paper investigates the phenomenon of phonetic reduction of the reformulation marker cioè, a very frequent lexical item in spoken Italian. This word has attracted both scholarly attention and popular interest over the years because of its multifunctionality and ability to convey a variety of social meanings. On top of this, the recent appearance of the reduced form cè has also been observed to have become increasingly frequent even in informa…
Kontatto: A laboratory for the study of language contact in South Tyrol
Between 2011 and 2019 two research projects were financed by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy) that allowed a research group led by the two authors to be set up to work extensively on language contact. One of the major outcomes of these two research projects was the creation of a corpus of spoken Tyro-lean (KONTATTO) and of a few other secondary corpora (KONTATTI) devoted to Italo-Romance dialects, as well as Cimbrian …
The dilemmas of ‘saving’ a dying language: Walser German between documentation and planning
Walser German is a prototypical example of ‘extreme’ minority language, the survival of which appears at present extremely critical, at least in the Italian context. From a sociolinguistic point of view, Walser German is dispersed in a discontinuous territory and subject to language shift, language attrition and demographic shrinkage. Linguistically, it is part of a dialect continuum that stretches north of the Alps; yet, the dialects spoken in I…
Francoprovençal in contact with Walser German
This article focuses on Francoprovençal (FP) from the perspective of language contact, specifically the reciprocal effects between FP and two dialects of German (Alemannic) spoken in the Aosta region and belonging to the severely endangered Walser minority group located in Northwestern Italy. On the basis of lexical evidence we describe a complex dynamics of language contact among communities embedded in one another. We found bidirectional exchan…
Reformulation in bilingual speech: Italian cioè in German and Ladin
Italian and Italo-Romance dialects
The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have given rise to potentially different speech communities within the larger Italo-Romance domain. Such communities are mainly determined by the dimensions of geographical, social and age variation. In this paper we are going to present some of these different patterns of dialect and standard Italian, first reviewing some of the most relevant literature of the…
Survival strategies of local languages in Italy
The interplay of dialect and the standard in anonymous street dialogues: Patterns of variation in northern Italy
In this article we provide a quantitative view on the relationship between standard and dialect in Italy. In Italian sociolinguistics, the concept of dilalìa has been used to account for this kind of linguistic repertoire. This notion will be addressed as the main theoretical frame to our investigation on code choice. Italian sociolinguistics and dialectology so far have come to apparently contradictory results about the standard–dialect relation…
Minority languages between nationalism and new localism: The case of Italy
This paper deals with multilingualism and with the role that language policy plays in the maintenance (or disruption) of linguistic diversity. Focus is on today’s Italy and on the interplay between the actual complexity of multilingual repertoires diffused on the territory and the practical problems originated by the recent law in defense of minority languages. Particular attention will be paid to the issue of the standard and of newly elaborated…
Reformulation in bilingual speech: Italian cioè in German and Ladin
Italian and Italo-Romance dialects
The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have given rise to potentially different speech communities within the larger Italo-Romance domain. Such communities are mainly determined by the dimensions of geographical, social and age variation. In this paper we are going to present some of these different patterns of dialect and standard Italian, first reviewing some of the most relevant literature of the…
Pragmatic functions and phonetic reduction: Cioè and cè in contemporary spoken Italian
This paper investigates the phenomenon of phonetic reduction of the reformulation marker cioè, a very frequent lexical item in spoken Italian. This word has attracted both scholarly attention and popular interest over the years because of its multifunctionality and ability to convey a variety of social meanings. On top of this, the recent appearance of the reduced form cè has also been observed to have become increasingly frequent even in informa…
Minority languages between nationalism and new localism: The case of Italy
This paper deals with multilingualism and with the role that language policy plays in the maintenance (or disruption) of linguistic diversity. Focus is on today’s Italy and on the interplay between the actual complexity of multilingual repertoires diffused on the territory and the practical problems originated by the recent law in defense of minority languages. Particular attention will be paid to the issue of the standard and of newly elaborated…
Minority languages between nationalism and new localism: The case of Italy
This paper deals with multilingualism and with the role that language policy plays in the maintenance (or disruption) of linguistic diversity. Focus is on today’s Italy and on the interplay between the actual complexity of multilingual repertoires diffused on the territory and the practical problems originated by the recent law in defense of minority languages. Particular attention will be paid to the issue of the standard and of newly elaborated…
The interplay of dialect and the standard in anonymous street dialogues: Patterns of variation in northern Italy
In this article we provide a quantitative view on the relationship between standard and dialect in Italy. In Italian sociolinguistics, the concept of dilalìa has been used to account for this kind of linguistic repertoire. This notion will be addressed as the main theoretical frame to our investigation on code choice. Italian sociolinguistics and dialectology so far have come to apparently contradictory results about the standard–dialect relation…
Survival strategies of local languages in Italy
Italian and Italo-Romance dialects
The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have given rise to potentially different speech communities within the larger Italo-Romance domain. Such communities are mainly determined by the dimensions of geographical, social and age variation. In this paper we are going to present some of these different patterns of dialect and standard Italian, first reviewing some of the most relevant literature of the…
Reformulation in bilingual speech: Italian cioè in German and Ladin
Francoprovençal in contact with Walser German
This article focuses on Francoprovençal (FP) from the perspective of language contact, specifically the reciprocal effects between FP and two dialects of German (Alemannic) spoken in the Aosta region and belonging to the severely endangered Walser minority group located in Northwestern Italy. On the basis of lexical evidence we describe a complex dynamics of language contact among communities embedded in one another. We found bidirectional exchan…
Kontatto: A laboratory for the study of language contact in South Tyrol
Between 2011 and 2019 two research projects were financed by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy) that allowed a research group led by the two authors to be set up to work extensively on language contact. One of the major outcomes of these two research projects was the creation of a corpus of spoken Tyro-lean (KONTATTO) and of a few other secondary corpora (KONTATTI) devoted to Italo-Romance dialects, as well as Cimbrian …
The dilemmas of ‘saving’ a dying language: Walser German between documentation and planning
Walser German is a prototypical example of ‘extreme’ minority language, the survival of which appears at present extremely critical, at least in the Italian context. From a sociolinguistic point of view, Walser German is dispersed in a discontinuous territory and subject to language shift, language attrition and demographic shrinkage. Linguistically, it is part of a dialect continuum that stretches north of the Alps; yet, the dialects spoken in I…
Pragmatic functions and phonetic reduction: Cioè and cè in contemporary spoken Italian
This paper investigates the phenomenon of phonetic reduction of the reformulation marker cioè, a very frequent lexical item in spoken Italian. This word has attracted both scholarly attention and popular interest over the years because of its multifunctionality and ability to convey a variety of social meanings. On top of this, the recent appearance of the reduced form cè has also been observed to have become increasingly frequent even in informa…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)