Living Memory

<i>Living Memory</i> investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.<br /> <p>• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection<br /> • Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival<br /> • Introduces the original concept of the “social aesthetics of language”: the interweaving of culturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of language-choice<br /> • Written to be accessible to students and specialists alike<br /> • Part of the <a href=”http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410785.html” target=”_blank”><i>Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series</i></a></p>