In:Borderscapes: The de/construction of borders as an everyday practice in contemporary Italy
Stefania Tufi
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 58] 2026
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Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1Introduction
1.2Disciplinary transgressions — borders and boundaries
from a range of perspectives
from a range of perspectives
1.3Methodologies
1.4The sociolinguistics of Italy
1.5The chapters in this monograph
Chapter 2.Elite borderscapes
2.1Introduction
2.2Methodology
2.3Multilingualism and language policy in Valle d’Aosta/Vallée
d’Aoste
2.4Courmayeur and a history of border contestations
2.5Cross-border mobility, ecology and the elite
2.6Gendering mountaineering
2.7The spatialisation of identity and local cosmogonies
2.8The elite character of the mundane
2.9Emplaced multilingualism
2.9.1Subaltern multilingualism
2.10Staging language
2.11Conclusion
Chapter 3.Historical legacies and borderscape struggles
3.1Introduction
3.2A history of borders
3.3Language and identity
3.4LL in Trieste in 2010
3.4.1Trieste city
3.4.2Outside trieste
3.5Returning to the Trieste sites
3.5.1What participants in Trieste think
3.6Gorizia and Nova Gorica
3.6.1Gorizia
3.6.2Nova Gorica
3.7Methodology — walking and (bus) riding the landscape
3.8Linguistic landscaping Nova Gorica and Gorizia
3.8.1LL in Nova Gorica
3.8.2Landscape struggles
3.8.3LL in Gorizia
3.8.4What participants in Gorizia think
3.9Conclusion
Chapter 4.Border mobilities and Discursive Sardinian
4.1Introduction
4.2The context
4.3Towards Discursive Sardinian
4.4Generating data
4.5Discursive Sardinian as an everyday practice
4.5.1Muravera — the primacy of orality
4.5.2Siniscola — consolidating and initiating discourse
4.5.3Sassari University students — exoticising Sardinian
authenticity
4.5.4The Sassari Collective — Sardinian as activism
4.5.5Participants with migrant backgrounds — Sardinian as home
4.6LL in Cagliari
4.6.1LL in 2008
4.6.2The Marina quarter — spatialisation practices
as discursive formations
as discursive formations
4.6.3LL in the Marina quarter between 2017 and 2025
4.7Conclusion
Chapter 5.LL consonances and memorial agency
in a transnational borderscape
in a transnational borderscape
5.1Introduction
5.2Methodology
5.3Via Prè as a transnational space (2008)
5.3.1The imposition of sameness, the practice of difference
5.4The citizenship of the everyday
5.5An enriched semiotics of difference (2018)
5.5.1The practice of non-recognition
5.5.2Reconciling the multiple self
5.6The normalisation of Italian and the persistence of boundaries
(2023)
5.7Via Prè as a periphery
5.8Via Prè as the epitome of permanent exclusion
5.9Conclusion
Chapter 6.Writing the self, writing the landscape
6.1Introduction
6.2The regional contexts
6.2.1The Ladin valleys
6.2.2South Tyrol
6.3Theoretical perspectives
6.3.1Writing the self as a diffractive approach to research
6.3.2Affect and materiality
6.4Methodology
6.5Writing the self, writing the landscape
6.5.1Growing up in Ladin
6.5.2Italian as the object of desire
6.5.3Landscapes of affect
6.6Conclusion
Chapter 7.Conclusion
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