Between Italian, English and dialect: how Ellis Island’s migrants spoke

Emigrants coming up the board-walk from the barge, which has taken them off the steamship company's docks, and transported them to Ellis Island. Source: Wikipedia

Giulia Guarnieri presented her paper 'Spoken identity: conversational analysis of Ellis Island’s Italian American Immigrants' at the Diaspore Italiane conference in New York.

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Published 7 November 2018 3:24pm

Updated 7 November 2018 5:04pm

By Virginia Padovese

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Giulia Guarnieri presented her paper 'Spoken identity: conversational analysis of Ellis Island’s Italian American Immigrants' at the Diaspore Italiane conference in New York.

Professor Giulia Guarnieri, from Bronx Community College, has analysed the recordings of interviews with Italian immigrants in the United States from a linguistic point of view.