Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families

This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.

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Antonia Rubino is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her main research interests and publications are in multilingualism and contact linguistics, with a focus on changes occurring in the Italian language and dialects in the Australian context. She is editor of Using and Learning Italian in Australia and Lingua, identità e comunicazione in contesti anglofoni e italiani, and co-author of Emigrazione e comportamento linguistico: un'indagine sul trilinguismo dei siciliani e dei veneti in Australia.

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Introduction 1. The Context of Italian Migration 2. From Bilingualism in Sicily to Trilingualism in Australia 3. Approaches to Multilingual Talk 4. Trilingual Talk in Family A 5. Trilingual Talk in Family B 6. From Qualitative to Quantitative Data: Language Choice in the Family 7. Summary and Conclusions