An Italo-English Dialect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Cascaito (corresponding author), Douglas Radcliff-Umstead |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 5-5 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3087858 |
| OpenAlex | W2333498003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
D URING THE LAST FORTY YEARS linguistic observers (Turano, Gisolfi, Hall, Butera, Correa-Zoli) have occasionally pointed out the existence of a dialect in the United States which they have labeled Italo-American, American-Italian, Italian-English pidgin, or the speech of Little Italy. Throughout the areas of America where Italian immigrants have settled in large numbers and established ethnic enclaves, there has arisen a distinctive language consisting of elements of various Italian dialects and American English. In this study we examine the Italo-English of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or, to be specific, Panther Hollow Italo-English, since our field work has been conducted in the almost exclusively Italian neighborhood of Pittsburgh known as Panther Hollow, in the city's Oakland district. The Italo-English spoken there can also be used, however, to communicate with Italo-Americans from other sections of Pittsburgh and even with those from Cleveland, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. As an Italian-based linguistic community, Panther Hollow has been in existence for approximately seventy-five years. Because a majority of the Italian immigrants to America at the turn of the century came from southern Italy, a core of elements from the southern dialects is used throughout the United States and accounts for the widespread comprehension of Pittsburgh Italo-English. Our concentration, however, is on its use within Panther Hollow, whose natives made this study possible by their participation in intensive interview sessions on the history, traditions, and language of their community
Linguistics · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 1997 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |