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9780252034039 Academic Inspection Copy

A New Language, A New World

Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945
  • ISBN-13: 9780252034039
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Nancy C. Carnevale
  • Price: AUD $239.00
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2009
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.
''By focusing on the everyday linguistic practices of ordinary immigrants, Carnevale's study is truly path-breaking, opening new ground in the study of immigrant language usage. Refreshingly original and enormously stimulating.'' Donna Gabaccia, co-editor of American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History ''In A New Language, A New World, Nancy C. Carnevale does something that historians have long claimed that they would do, but in fact never did: she takes language seriously. Carnveale focuses on the language world of Italian immigrants in the United States and examines in intricate and intimate detail how language shaped them and structured their encounter with America.'' Hasia R. Diner, author of Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
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