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Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language

A Linguistic Analysis

Cinzia Russi

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri’s Narrative Language examines Camilleri’s unique linguistic repertoire and techniques over his career as a novelist. It focuses on the intensification of Sicilian linguistic features in Camilleri’s narrative works, in particular features pertaining to the domains of sounds and grammar, since these have been marginalized in linguistic-centered research on the evolution of Camilleri’s narrative language and remain overall understudied. Through a systematic comparative analysis of the distribution patterns of selected Sicilian features in a selection of Camilleri’s historical novels and novels of the Montalbano series, the author identifies the individual features that have become most widespread and the lexical items that are targeted with highest frequency and consistency. The results of the analysis show that in the earlier novels, Sicilian features are rather sparse and can be attributed to linguistic situational functionality; that is, they function as indices of salient, distinctive aspects of topics, settings, events/situations, and characters. Conversely, in the latest novels, Sicilian elements pervade the entire novels and the texts are written almost entirely in Camilleri’s own Sicilian, vigatese, so that Sicilian is stripped of any linguistic situational functionality.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 286 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-68393-278-9 • Hardback • October 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-1-68393-279-6 • eBook • October 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian, Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Literary Criticism / Modern / General

Cinzia Russiis associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

Introduction

Part I: The Dawn

Chapter 1 – The Debut: Il corso delle cose

Chapter 2 – Un filo di fumo

Chapter 3 – La forma dell’acqua

Part II: The Twilight

Chapter 4 – La banda Sacco

Chapter 5 – La giostra degli scambi

Part III: Trends of Evolution

Chapter 6 – Proverbs and Phrases

Chapter 7 – Food

Chapter 8 – Montalbano’s Realm

Conclusion

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language

A Linguistic Analysis

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eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri’s Narrative Language examines Camilleri’s unique linguistic repertoire and techniques over his career as a novelist. It focuses on the intensification of Sicilian linguistic features in Camilleri’s narrative works, in particular features pertaining to the domains of sounds and grammar, since these have been marginalized in linguistic-centered research on the evolution of Camilleri’s narrative language and remain overall understudied. Through a systematic comparative analysis of the distribution patterns of selected Sicilian features in a selection of Camilleri’s historical novels and novels of the Montalbano series, the author identifies the individual features that have become most widespread and the lexical items that are targeted with highest frequency and consistency. The results of the analysis show that in the earlier novels, Sicilian features are rather sparse and can be attributed to linguistic situational functionality; that is, they function as indices of salient, distinctive aspects of topics, settings, events/situations, and characters. Conversely, in the latest novels, Sicilian elements pervade the entire novels and the texts are written almost entirely in Camilleri’s own Sicilian, vigatese, so that Sicilian is stripped of any linguistic situational functionality.

Details
Details
  • University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Pages: 286 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-68393-278-9 • Hardback • October 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
    978-1-68393-279-6 • eBook • October 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian, Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Literary Criticism / Modern / General
Author
Author
  • Cinzia Russiis associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction

    Part I: The Dawn

    Chapter 1 – The Debut: Il corso delle cose

    Chapter 2 – Un filo di fumo

    Chapter 3 – La forma dell’acqua

    Part II: The Twilight

    Chapter 4 – La banda Sacco

    Chapter 5 – La giostra degli scambi

    Part III: Trends of Evolution

    Chapter 6 – Proverbs and Phrases

    Chapter 7 – Food

    Chapter 8 – Montalbano’s Realm

    Conclusion

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