A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series)
A historical study of how Italian immigrants in the United States lost, preserved, and negotiated language. It shows how language shaped ethnic identity.
Work Information
A migration history told through language history.
Tracing Italian, regional dialects, assimilation pressure, and language use inside families, the book revises the story of American immigration. It is scholarly yet readable, keeping language at the center of culture.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Illinois Pr
- Published
- 2009-04-06
- Pages
- 243 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 22.61 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780252034039
- ISBN-10
- 0252034031
- Price
- 18574 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Nonfiction/Education/Reference/Words & Language
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.
Nancy C. Carnevale is an assistant professor of history at Montclair State University. Nancy C. Carnevale is an associate professor of history at Montclair State University.