Browsing Department of Italian by Creator "De Fina, Anna"
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Code switching and ethnicity in a community of practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-05-19)In the past twenty years the existence of a sense of ethnic belonging among immigrant groups of European ancestry in the United States has become the focus of frequent debates and polemics. This article argues that ethnicity ... -
Espressione dell'identità etnica fra gli italoamericani di Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2015)This research project examines the expression of ethnic identity among members of the Italian American community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The study is based on the theory of identity as a social construction, ... -
Family interaction and engagement with the heritage language: A case study
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2013)In this paper I closely examine spontaneous interactions between members of a tri-generation Italian American family. I argue that members show different language preferences and differing attitudes towards the ... -
I PROGRAMMI UNIVERSITARI AMERICANI IN ITALIA: ANALISI A CAMPIONATURA DI UN MODELLO
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study examines three U.S. university study abroad programs, looking at the experience of American college students studying the Italian language. I focus my research on three American universities, Georgetown University, ... -
Il Discorso Populista di Beppe Grillo
(Georgetown University, 2018)This study examines the discourse of Beppe Grillo, founder of the Five Star Movement, a populist political movement created on his personal blog in 2009. It analyzes three of the texts published on Grillo’s blog about the ... -
ITALIANO NEL NUOVO MILLENNIO: UN'ANALISI DELL'ITALIANO SU FACEBOOK
(Georgetown University, 2016)It has been over a decade since the creation of Facebook and there are other virtual places where people can engage in computer mediated communication (CMC) in public while also having private conversations with either ... -
Le strategie di gestione dell'errore nel contesto della glottodidattica delle lingue neolatine
(Georgetown University, 2014)Second Language Acquisition is a relatively new field that has exponentially grown in its forty years. One of the areas that has rapidly developed is the study of error correction in classroom interaction, or corrective ... -
Pronominal Choice, Identity and Solidarity in Political Discourse
(Walter de Gruyter, 1995)This paper presents an empirical analysis of the pragmatic role that pronouns expressing person deixis have in the Speeches of two Mexican participants in a Conference on the Chiapas revolt of January 1994 in Mexico. ... -
Researcher and Informant Roles in Narrative Interactions: Construction of Belonging and Foreign-ness
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)In this article I focus on the influence of researcher/informant roles on the types of narratives that are produced and on the ways in which storytelling interactions are managed in research contexts. In particular, I ... -
Review of David Herman’s Story Logic
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Review of M. Hyvärinen et al. (eds.) Beyond Narrative Coherence
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Review of ‘The Subtle Slant. A Cross-Linguistic Discourse Analysis Model for Evaluating Interethnic Conflict in the Press’, by M.C. Garry.
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Who Tells Which Story and Why? Micro and Macros Contexts in Narrative
(Walter de Gruyter, 2008)This article focuses on the inter-relations between storytelling and micro and macro contexts. It explores how narrative activity is shaped by and shapes in unique ways the local context of interaction in a community ...
