Language Autobiographies in Sardinia

Friday October 18, 2013 at 14: 15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)

My presentation is about a research project regarding the relationship between Italian, Sardinian and other languages in Sardinia. The analysis is based on language (auto)biographies I’ve recently collected, asking people to tell their life stories with the main focus being on their relationship with the languages they were in contact with, and their linguistic history in the community (family, neighbor, school, workplace etc.). This kind of data can tell us a lot about the perception of the multilingual reality and of the relationship between language(s) and identity. Using micro stories we build the macro story, they tell a lot about the Sardinian community’s recent linguistic history.

Marco Gargiulo, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages (University of Bergen)