“Buona Domenica” (1980−1995). The Linguistic Phenomena in the Letters of Italians in Luxembourg and the Great Region

• Authors: Claudio Cicotti
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present article is on the linguistic characteristics of a corpus of letters sent to the television broadcast Buona Domenica, transmitted between 1980 and 1995 by RTL Luxembourg. This corpus contains 600 letters sent to the editorial staff by Italians or other nationalities interested in the Italian language and culture, residing in Luxembourg or in the neighbouring countries: Belgium, France and Germany (the Great Region). The vivacity and spontaneity of theses letters presents us a period of time that precedes the globalization of the mass media and is not so far from our present time. Each letter chosen for this article highlights especially the relationship that bound emigrants to the autochthonous language and to the memory of their mother tongue, almost always a dialect.

Keywords

EN

Buona Domenica; linguistic characteristics; Italian language and culture

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 91-100

Dates

published

2013-01-01

online

2013-01-30

Contributors

author

Claudio Cicotti

• Faculté des Lettres, Université du Luxembourg Campus Walferdange, Bâtiment X, bureau 1.29 Route de Diekirch

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10317-012-0016-z