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This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful vehicle for positive intercultural exchange either though conservation and the maintenance of cultural continuity, or through hybridization and the means through which migrant communities find compromise, or even consent, within the host community. Each chapter presents a fascinating range of data and new perspectives on cultures and languages in contact: from English (and some of its varieties) to Italian, German, Spanish, and to Japanese and Palauan, as well as an exemplary range of types of contact, in colonial, multicultural, and diasporic situations. The authors use a range of integrated approaches to examine how socio-linguistic food practices can, and do, contribute to identity construction in diverse transnational and diasporic contexts. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation, semiotics, cultural studies and sociolinguistics. Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy. Siria Guzzo is Tenured Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno, Italy.

Food habits --- Social aspects. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Culture. --- Translating and interpreting. --- Semiotics. --- Intercultural communication. --- Diaspora. --- Global/International Culture. --- Translation. --- Intercultural Communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Anthropological aspects --- Translating --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Translation and interpretation. --- Ethnic food. --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Food

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The Italian diaspora throughout the world navigate and negotiate various complex and multidirectional language dynamics. In order to account for the sociolinguistic processes that have taken place, this book provides a detailed observation of these linguistic dynamics from the point of view of the Italian diaspora in Bedford, in the UK. This study on the language behaviour of three generations of Italian residents in Bedford provides empirical data on, and highlights the importance of, the s.

Italians --- Foreign workers, Italian --- Languages. --- Ethnic identity.

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Semiotics --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Migration. Refugees --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Mass communications --- Sociolinguistics --- Translation science --- cultuur --- semiotiek --- vertalen --- migratie (mensen) --- interculturele communicatie --- globalisering --- sociolinguïstiek