[Linganth] Andrea Leone-Pizzighella discusses her book on CaMP

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

Today on the blog,  Andrea Leone-Pizzighella discusses her book *Discourses
of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian
Secondary Schools. *with Clara Miller-Broomfield.


https://campanthropology.org


Best,

Ilana


Press blurb:

This book offers a linguistic ethnographic account of secondary schooling
in Umbria, Italy, examining the complex intersection of language,
socioeconomic class, social persona, and school choice to provide a
holistic portrait of the situatedness of student “success.”

The book explores the everyday sociolinguistic practices at the three types
of Italian secondary schools in Umbria—the lyceum, the technical institute,
and the vocational school—and the language ideologies and *de facto* language
policies associated with them. An analysis of narrative, interviews, and
classroom discourse unpacks the ways in which students are socialized by
both peers and teachers into specific academic discourses and specialized
forms of knowledge throughout their school careers. In those close analyses
of the micro-interactional contexts of three classrooms, drawing on a
corpus of naturally occurring classroom discourse, the volume illuminates
the ways in which certain forms of talk are exalted while others policed
and how students either submit to or resist the social labels ascribed to
them. This account contributes new insights into the ways in which
educational institutions are constructed and maintained via talk.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in
educational linguistics, linguistic anthropology, classroom discourse,
streamed-tracked education systems, and education policy.
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