Title of the article:

PERCEPTION OF TRIESTE IN NARRATIVES OF SLOVENES IN ITALY

Author(s):

Gleb P. Pilipenko

Information about the author/authors

Gleb P. Pilipenko — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Ave, 32A, 119991 Moscow. Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5422-0039 E-mail: glebpilipenko@mail.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2022

Volume

Vol. 63

Pages

pp. 247–267

Received

December 03, 2020

Approved after reviewing

February 06, 2021

Date of publication

March 28, 2022

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-247-267

Index UDK

81.114

Index BBK

81.2-67 + 83.3(4Ита=416)

Acknowledgements

The study was supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation 20-78-10030 “Linguistic and cultural contacts in сonditions of social transformations among national minorities of the Alpine-Pannonian region”.

Abstract

The paper deals with the perception of Trieste in the narratives of representatives of Slovenian minority community in Italy in the aspect of Slavic-Romance language and cultural contacts. Basing on his own field study, as well as, lexicographic data and ethnographic literature, the author analyzes words and utterances (including phraseological units) that mention Trieste, related toponyms and socio-economic practices. While paying special attention to the language situation in the city and neighboring villages, the paper also discusses significance of the Italian language and the local dialect of Trieste as well as borrowed Slavic lexemes and expressions, their functioning in the speech of citizens. Linguistic and cultural identity of this group of Slovenian informants is closely related to Trieste. On the one hand, the informants associate Trieste with predominance of the Italian language, which manifests in their speech as code switching forms, on the other, they recognize the importance of Trieste in a socio-economic and cultural life of all Slovenes. The parallel co-existence of two communities has recently undergone changes: italophone residents of the city discover homogeneous Slovenian settlements, so that the new language situation is in statu nascendi.

Keywords

Slovenian language, Italian language, Trieste, dialect, field study, Italy, narrative, toponyms, code switching, identity. 

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