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SUMMARY:The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology - R
 osanna Sornicola\, Giovanni Abete\, Margherita Di Salvo\, Università degl
 i studi di Napoli Federico II
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CONTACT:Annie Burman
DESCRIPTION:The talk will focus on a perspective of dialectological resear
 ch that\, starting from fieldwork techniques and a structural description 
 of linguistic phenomena especially considered in their variable patterns\,
  moves towards projects of  a “linguistic echology of small communities
 ”. Over a period of twenty years\, the ADICA project research team at th
 e University of Naples Federico II has built up an archive of the dialects
  of Campania that includes sound records\, photographs and films with inte
 rviews of numerous speakers and other kinds of data (records of ethnograph
 ical data\, like objects and artefacts of everyday life\, photographs and 
 films of landscapes\, particularly interesting cultural settings of the va
 rious communities investigated\, etc.). \n\nThe geographical space covered
  by the work and projects of the ADICA group includes both the coastal and
  the hinterland of Campania\, the administrative region that has Naples as
  its main city. Like other areas of Southern Italy\, Campania is more cons
 ervative than the North in terms of dialect preservation\, but it is exper
 iencing threats to the traditional linguistic environment in which dialect
 s once flourished. It has also suffered from massive emigration\, especial
 ly in its internal mountainous territories\, due to their precarious econo
 mic condition.\n\nThe perspective of linguistic echology aims at (i) direc
 t and deep knowledge of the linguistic\, social and cultural aspects of th
 e communities investigated\; (ii) preservation of the communities’ lingu
 istic and cultural feeling and memory as an overall heritage in the comple
 x conditions of a changing world\, in order to help keep the social habita
 t alive and balanced\; (iii) promotion of the communities’ overall herit
 age with the communicative techniques of on-line museums\, documentaries\,
  and exhibitions.  
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-05
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