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dc.contributor.authorFuriassi, Cristiano
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-11T11:00:49Z
dc.date.available2024-01-11T11:00:49Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationFuriassi, Cristiano. "Barbadian English idioms: Challenging linguistic norms in a diasporic context". «Testi e linguaggi» 17 (2023): 46-65. [Studi monografici Language contact, variation and change across borders: diasporas, mobility, barriers]it_IT
dc.identifier.isbn978-88-290-1959-5it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1974-2886it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6918
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4977
dc.description.abstractAs 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.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 46-65it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherRoma: Carocciit_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectBarbadian Englishit_IT
dc.subjectDiasporait_IT
dc.subjectDictionariesit_IT
dc.subjectIdentityit_IT
dc.subjectIdiomsit_IT
dc.subjectMetalexicographyit_IT
dc.titleBarbadian English idioms: Challenging linguistic norms in a diasporic contextit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTesti e linguaggiit_IT
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