Over 20 years ago, Carolyn Baker encouraged me to look more closely at the interviews I
had conducted–specifically to look beyond the topics of the talk found in my transcripts to …

The various collections of language biographies starting in the 1990s have given rise to a
new field of investigation in sociolinguistics. The interest in the very individual …

This paper focuses on the variety of Italian spoken in Bozen (South Tyrol, Italy) by Italian L1
speakers. Due to the peculiar multilingual situation of South Tyrol, Italian speakers are …

Oggetto del volume sono le biografie linguistiche di persone trasferitesi in Alto Adige
(Südtirol) dai paesi successori alla Jugoslavia dal 1985 al 2015. Esaminando a livello …

The biographical approach, which is increasingly widespread in the literature and is
characterised by" a very significant degree of granularity at a qualitative level"(Franceschini …

The paper focuses on multilingual families in South Tyrol, an official trilingual province in
Northern Italy, where Italian, German and Ladin are spoken. Data collection took place in …

Negli ultimi anni, nella linguistica applicata gli approcci autobiografici sono diventati sempre
più rilevanti e numerosi, nonché differenziati per quanto riguarda la metodologia (cfr …

Wenn jeder Äußerung die Wahl einer Sprache, einer Varietät oder einer bestimmten
Ausdrucksweise zu Grunde liegt, kann man aus dem Sprachgebrauch Schlüsse auf das …

Der grammatische Wandel von Sprachen verläuft ungleich langsamer als ihr lexikalischer
Wandel. Er wird nicht intentional vollzogen. Er wird nicht von normativen Instanzen …

This paper deals with the definition of languages and communities that are other than one's
own. This topic is particularly interesting in contexts in which various communities co-exist …