Multilingualism as right and choice : a case study of Slovene speakers in Northeast Italy

Grgič, Matejka (author)

This article is based on a case study of Slovene speakers in north-western Italy and their attitudes towards language use and policy. Although the legal protection and support for the development of minority, regional, and non-dominant languages in Europe have made a remarkable progress, minority language communities still face many serious challenges. On the one hand, the level of their respective legal protection is often not efficient enough. On the other hand, legal protection provides only formal conditions for language maintenance, which has nothing to do with motivation, proficiency, or improvement. Today, most minority speakers in Europe are allowed and encouraged to use their home language in the public; but the question is whether they are motivated to do so. By studying the speakers of Slovene in Italy, my aim is to point at importance of colloquial local and non-local (koiné) varieties in maintaining minority language and bilingualism.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovene language in Italy, minority language, language exposure, language ideology, sociolinguistics
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 213-228
• Numbering: Vol. 69, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-158300
• UDC: 811.163.6'272:323.15(450=163.6)
• ISSN on article: 0044-3506
• DOI: 10.1515/slaw-2024-0012
• COBISS.SI-ID: 197341443
• Publication date in RUL: 03.06.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Zeitschrift für Slawistik
• Shortened title: Z. Slaw.
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• ISSN: 0044-3506
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26680576

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: slovenščina v Italiji, manjšinski jeziki, jezikovna izpostavljenost, jezikovna ideologija, sociolingvistika