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Publication details [#53657]

Cavallaro, Francesco. 2010. From trilingualism to monolingualism? Sicilian-Italians in Australia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (206) : 109–154.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language shift | language use | monolingualism | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Italian | Italian, Sicilian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how the established Italian immigrant community in Australia is shifting away from Italian (or any regional varieties) to the usage of English only.