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Il cocoliche: da “orribile gergo” a lingua dell'anima

Translated title of the contribution: Cocoliche: from 'horrible jargon' to the language of the soul
  • Giuseppe Sommario

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Abstract

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay investigates the coccoliate, the mixed language spoken by the first generation emigrants in Argentina and Uruguay between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This language, the result of contact between the many Italian dialects and the Spanish of Argentina, gave rise to one of the most famous characters of the Argentine comic theater (Cocoliche) and is also the language used by contemporary authors.
Translated title of the contributionCocoliche: from 'horrible jargon' to the language of the soul
Original languageItalian
Title of host publicationLa scena dell'oralità, per una voce fuori luogo
PublisherCorisco
Pages145-158
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)978-88-98138-15-9
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Emigrazione
  • contaminazione linguistica
  • contatto culturale

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