http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6904 2026-04-20T10:55:14Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6921 English(es) and beyond: Towards multilingualism in a multifaceted and permeable family of languages Cordisco, Mikaela 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6920 Linguistic borders between French and Arabic in the Family Code in Morocco: loanwords and identity issues Bevilacqua, Michele Several observations have led us to investigate the loanwords used in the variety of French spoken in Morocco, in relation to an institutional document such as the Family Code i.e., the set of laws concerning the legal relations between the members of a Moroccan family. The text has evolved in a manner which is very favourable to linguistic interference, as it also manifests itself in the form of linguistic borrowings from the ‘dominant’ local languages, namely Standard Arabic and Moroccan dialectal Arabic. The presence of Arabisms constitutes a corpus that reflects these cultural and linguistic contaminations, generated within the framework of the state of bilingualism and the socio-cultural status determined by the use of the different languages spoken there. Therefore, our study will both investigate the lexical choices and the reasons for the presence of numerous Arabisms, concerning certain themes in the francophone text of the family code, and will connect them to the identity link, which unites the inhabitants of Morocco to Arab culture and to Muslim religion. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6919 French and English languages in contact: The Chiac case Pellegrino, Rosario This study concerns the language variation and changes across Borders in a bilingual context: the Acadian French in contact with North American English. In particular, it explores a specific linguistic idiom called Chiac, a language variety of south-eastern New Brunswick (Canada), characterized by strong English influence on the Acadian French substrate. Originally, it was spoken by bilingual teenagers in Moncton, Canada, and it is based on Canadian French but it contains several English influences both in words/morphemes and semantics/pragmatics. Through structural and lexical analysis, the study aims at underlining the social factors that influence speakers’ choices and particularly those who use Chiac as a communication language. In fact, it is recently spoken by a growing number of speakers not only by teenagers. Variation and change across borders will represent a specific Weltanschauung in a bilingual context where Canadian French is less and less important though it is protected by French speakers as an identity status. Finally, some examples of lexical/phonological/phonetic/syntactic variations will be presented in order to remark strong English influence on this Acadian French substrate in a sociolinguistic perspective. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6918 Barbadian English idioms: Challenging linguistic norms in a diasporic context Furiassi, Cristiano As a typical phenomenon affecting virtually all diaspora Englishes, also throughout the Anglophone Caribbean the centripetal forces leading to the recognition of a unified norm cohabit with the outward thrust of linguistic fragmentation – the latter encouraging the determination of territory-specific varieties of English, such as Barbadian. Bearing in mind the profound significance of phraseology for Caribbean and Barbadian English alike, this contribution aims to foreground the idiomatic features pertaining to the variety of English spoken in Barbados by means of a pilot study based on the New Register of Caribbean English Usage, from which seven culturally marked idioms are singled out and commented on. The conclusions reached by means of this metalexicographic investigation reveal that the phraseological specificities generated by Barbadians – mostly through the interplay of British English, Irish English and various West African languages from the seventeenth century onwards – evidence lexical metamorphoses which contribute to the forging of Barbadian identity, hence challenging the superimposed linguistic norms of the colonial era. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z