Migration, language, and variation: the challenge of foreign speakers to detect Italian linguistic varieties

Camilla Masullo
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In the last decades, Italy has been affected by new migratory waves which enriched its varied sociolinguistic landscape. If on one hand Italy has been dealing with the integration of new immigrants in the society, on the other foreign immigrants need to cope with the extreme sociolinguistic complexity which defines the Italian linguistic reality. The present study aims to examine how foreign speakers perceive regional linguistic variation of Italy. A perceptive experiment was conducted on 44 foreign respondents to test their linguistic perception of six regional Italian varieties. Results showed that Italian’s explicit learning helps linguistic comprehension, but it is not enough to grasp differences between regional varieties of Italian, and this could cause comprehension difficulties for the unrepresented varieties in Italian language programs. We suggest that the enhancement of Italian regional varieties’ representation could foster new immigrants’ integration in the welcome society.
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移民、语言和变异:外语使用者发现意大利语言变异的挑战
在过去的几十年中,意大利一直受到新移民潮的影响,这丰富了其多样的社会语言景观。一方面,意大利一直在处理新移民融入社会的问题,另一方面,外国移民需要应对意大利语言现实中极其复杂的社会语言。本研究旨在探讨外国语言使用者如何看待意大利的地区语言差异。对 44 名外国受访者进行了一项感知实验,以测试他们对意大利六个地区语言变体的语言感知。结果表明,意大利语的显性学习有助于语言理解,但不足以掌握意大利语地区变体之间的差异,这可能会给意大利语课程中未体现的变体造成理解上的困难。我们建议,加强意大利语地区变体的代表性可以促进新移民融入受欢迎的社会。
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