Publications

Publication details [#60398]

Perrino, Sabina M. 2015. Performing extracomunitari: Mocking migrants in Veneto barzellette. Language in Society 44 (2) : 141–160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | joke | language use | racism | standard1 vs. dialect2

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Veneto speakers execute barzellette, short comic stories, in their local Veneto dialect, abstruse to outsiders, to mock extracomunitari or certain immigrant voices, as a form of latent racist speech practice within an ‘unmarked’ framework, imbedded in Northern Italian socio-cultural patterns.