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<p>The article analyses the speech behaviour of two speakers who were born into bilingual families, grew up in a bilingual environment in Italy, and decided as adults to move to a monolingual Slovene environment. We are interested in how the change in environment affects their discursive practises. To acquire the data, the guided conversation method and transcription of audio-recorded discourse were used, while the interactional sociolinguistic analysis method was used to analyse the discourse. The study showed that in the monolingual Slovene environment, both speakers found it difficult to adapt their speech to Slovene technical language. They also lacked the specific Slovene expressions used in everyday life. On the other hand, although their Slovene was interspersed with Italian interference, they knew variations in Slovene and were sensitive to the use of slang in standard Slovene.</p>
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The article analyses the speech behaviour of two speakers who were born into bilingual families, grew up in a bilingual environment in Italy, and decided as adults to move to a monolingual Slovene environment. We are interested in how the change in environment affects their discursive practises. To acquire the data, the guided conversation method and transcription of audio-recorded discourse were used, while the interactional sociolinguistic analysis method was used to analyse the discourse. The study showed that in the monolingual Slovene environment, both speakers found it difficult to adapt their speech to Slovene technical language. They also lacked the specific Slovene expressions used in everyday life. On the other hand, although their Slovene was interspersed with Italian interference, they knew variations in Slovene and were sensitive to the use of slang in standard Slovene.

Change in the Discursive Practices of Bilingual Speakers after Moving to a Monolingual Environment

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

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The article analyses the speech behaviour of two speakers who were born into bilingual families, grew up in a bilingual environment in Italy, and decided as...

Change in the Discursive Practices of Bilingual Speakers after Moving to a Monolingual Environment

Published Online: Sep 29, 2023

Page range: 69 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig88.jun22.69-85

Keywords
contact linguistics, bilingual speaker, discursive practices, choice of language, Slovene, Italian

© 2022 Danila Zuljan Kumar, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Change in the Discursive Practices of Bilingual Speakers after Moving to a Monolingual Environment

Published Online: Sep 29, 2023

Page range: 69 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig88.jun22.69-85

Keywordscontact linguistics, bilingual speaker, discursive practices, choice of language, Slovene, Italian

© 2022 Danila Zuljan Kumar, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
contact linguistics, bilingual speaker, discursive practices, choice of language, Slovene, Italian