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Italian language --- Sociolinguistics --- Dialects --- Grammar. --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Romance languages --- Grammar --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects

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"The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the 'dialect-standard' landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech communities with different (geo)political and sociolinguistic histories, as well as on previously unexplored sociolinguistic situations. The contributions all share the twin characteristics of (a) robust scrutiny of structural variation and its links to both structural-systemic parameters and extralinguistic variables and (b) nuanced approaches to macro- and micro- level categories, with the requisite theoretical and methodological fine-tuning. While focusing on different languages/language groups, the papers in this volume share the common foci of bringing together structural and sociolinguistic considerations and of the concomitant necessary revisiting of methodologies. The data and analyses presented yield a firmer and more nuanced understanding of the dynamic permutations of cross-dialectal and dialect-to-standard convergence and the formation of intermediate varieties in different yet comparable contexts"--

Dialectology. --- Language and languages --- Language and languages. --- Variation. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Languages. --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Variation --- E-books

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Italian language --- Sociolinguistics --- Italien (Langue) --- Sociolinguistique --- Sociolinguistics. --- Italienisch. --- Mundart. --- Standardsprache. --- Dialetti italiani --- Lingua italiana e dialetti. --- Dialects. --- Dialectes. --- Rapporti [con la] Lingua italiana. --- Italy.

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In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving rise to a new standard variety called Neo-standard Italian, which partly consists of regional features. This book contributes to current research on standardization in Europe by offering a comprehensive overview of the re-standardization dynamics in Italian. Each chapter investigates a specific dynamic shaping the emergence of Neo-standard Italian and Regional Standard Varieties, such as the acceptance of previously non-standard features, the reception of Old Italian features excluded from the standard variety, the changing standard language ideology, the retention of features from Italo-Romance dialects, the standardization of patterns borrowed from English, and the developmental tendencies of standard Italian in Switzerland. The contributions investigate phonetic/phonological, prosodic, morphosyntactic, and lexical phenomena, addressed by several empirical methodologies and theoretical vantage points. This work is of interest to scholars and students working on language variation and change, especially those focusing on standard languages and standardization dynamics.

Italian language --- Written Italian --- Written communication --- Spoken Italian --- Romance languages --- Standardization. --- Spoken Italian. --- Written Italian. --- Standardization --- E-books --- Standarization. --- Dialects. --- Contemporary Italian. --- Dialect/Standard Convergence. --- Language Standardization. --- Regional Standards.