V. 18 (2024): Luca Bellone, Virginia Pulcini (eds.), "The Language of Youth and Anglophilia in Italian, French and Spanish", Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne – Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino 2024

The essays included in this volume are based on the papers presented at the international conference “Linguaggio giovanile e anglofilia nelle lingue romanze”, which was held at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures (University of Turin) on 23-24 November 2023.

The volume focuses on the growing influence of English on the language of European youth, a variety which is widely recognized as a creative laboratory of lexical innovation. The main objective of this international project is to analyze this phenomenon from a cross-linguistic perspective, obtaining data across languages that are historically related ‒ Italian, French and Spanish ‒ and that notoriously uphold divergent attitudes toward the acceptance of foreign words. In particular, the aim was to describe English-induced lexical and morpho-syntactic borrowings that emerge in spoken and written genres and that characterize the areas of greater impact in young people’s lives, interests and experience, i.e., web communication and entertainment, music, gaming, audio-visual products (tv series and films), to quote the main ones.

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Luca BELLONE is Associate Professor of Italian Philology and Linguistics at the University of Turin; he collaborated on the Lessico Etimologico Italiano under the guidance of Max Pfister and was editor of the Repertorio Etimologico Piemontese (Torino, 2015). His most recent research interests have produced contributions on Dante’s reflections in contemporary times (literature, song, film, web) and some specific varieties of present-day Italian: media Italian, language of songs, literary language and the language of youth.

Virginia PULCINI is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Torino, Italy (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures). She has published in  several fields of English linguistics, English language teaching, lexicology, lexicography and contact linguistics. She co-edited the volume The Anglicization of European Lexis (Benjamins, 2012) and is the author of the monograph The influence of English on Italian. Lexical and cultural features (De Gruyter, 2023).

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Luca Bellone, Virginia Pulcini (eds.), The Language of Youth and Anglophilia in Italian, French and Spanish, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne – Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino 2024.

ISBN 978-88-7590-336-7

(«QuadRi» – Quaderni di RiCOGNIZIONI, XVIII)