Lingua, identitĂ e migrazione: pratiche di translanguaging nella comunitĂ migrante di Cesena
Increased migration flows in many European countries and the spread of globalization all over the world have accelerated the development of multilingual and multicultural societies. Like other European countries, these migration flows have affected Italy, which has rapidly turned into a “superdiverse” society. Such changes in society urged scholars to see sociolinguistics phenomena and processes as determined by mobility and to examine them from a new perspective. To describe the flexibility and hybridity of communicative practices determined by mobility, scholars have developed a new way of describing and analysing language use in late modern societies by adopting a translanguaging perspective. This research is set at Centro Interculturale MoviMenti (Cesena, Italy), a place that offers integration and support services as well as Italian language classes to the migrant community of Cesena. This research examines migrant speakers’ translanguaging practices by analysing informal interactions amongst them on their weekly visits to Centro Interculturale MoviMenti. In addition, it investigates speakers’ perceptions and understandings of their linguistic practices and multilingual identities. Through a qualitative analysis of a collection of audio-video recordings of informal interactions and semi-structured interviews, the results of the analysis highlight from one side the flexibility of multilingual speakers’ translanguaging practices, and from the other one they reveal the negative connotation that speakers attribute to their translanguaging practices, uncovering an monolingual ideology.
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