Prospettive linguistiche e letterarie dell’isolamento

Fabiana Cecamore; Michele Cosentino; Elisabetta Ilaria Limone; Emma Pasquali

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-370-7

Prospettive linguistiche e letterarie dell’isolamento

Authors

Fabiana Cecamore

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Michele Cosentino

Università degli Studi di Messina

Elisabetta Ilaria Limone

Università di Napoli L’Orientale

Emma Pasquali

Università di Napoli L’Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-370-7

Keywords:

isolation, identity, sociolinguistics, contemporary literature, language contact

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Quaderni della ricerca - 7

ISSN: 2724-5519

Pages: 362

Language: Italian

Abstract: The present volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the Graduate Conference Islands and Bridges: Towards a Linguistic and Literary Topology of Isolation, held at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” from 18 to 20 October 2021. The contributions explore isolation as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon grounded in the self/other dichotomy, a fundamental dimension of identity formation from both sociolinguistic and cultural perspectives.

Divided into five sections, the volume brings literary and linguistic approaches into dialogue, showcasing the wide range of perspectives through which isolation can be examined. The first section focuses on self-narration and identity construction, presenting writing as a privileged space for negotiating the relationship between the self and the external world. The second explores the tension between individual solitude and reintegration into the community, while the third examines forms of political and ideological exclusion as represented in literary texts. The fourth section explores isolation from a linguistic perspective, emphasizing that linguistic varieties are never truly isolated. While they preserve their distinctive features, they are continually shaped through contact and interaction. The fifth section addresses solitude and marginalization from both linguistic and literary perspectives, highlighting both the negative dimension of isolation—such as linguistic discrimination within a community—and its positive dimension, as a space for self-reflection or a source of belonging within a close-knit community. Taken together, these contributions offer a rich and multifaceted account of isolation, inviting readers to reconsider the many forms and meanings this phenomenon can assume.

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Author Biographies

Fabiana Cecamore, Université du Québec à Rimouski

Fabiana Cecamore is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, where she is working on a comparative literature project exploring the relationship between literature and cinema in French and Québécois fiction. She earned her PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” with a dissertation on the relationship between literature and video art in the contemporary French novel.

Michele Cosentino, Università degli Studi di Messina

Michele Cosentino is a linguist and currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Messina, where he is involved in the PRIN 2022 PNRR project Contact-induced Change and Sociolinguistics: An Experimental Study on the Gallo-Italic Dialects of Sicily (PI: Alessandro De Angelis). Since 2025, he has also been Adjunct Lecturer in Historical Linguistics at the University of Messina. He received his PhD from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in 2023 with a dissertation entitled Fonetica storica dei dialetti nord-calabresi del Corridoio dell’Esaro (supervisor: Marcello Barbato). His main research interests include Romance dialectology, historical linguistics, and language contact.

Elisabetta Ilaria Limone, Università di Napoli L’Orientale

Elisabetta Ilaria Limone earned her PhD from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in 2023 with a dissertation on the archaeological poetry of the contemporary German poet and writer Durs Grünbein. Her research interests include migration literature, exile literature, postcolonial literature, the teaching of German and Italian as foreign languages, and translation theory and history. She is currently a lecturer in German as a second language (L2) at the Zentrum für Lehrerbildung at Kiel University.

Emma Pasquali, Università di Napoli L’Orientale

Emma Pasquali holds a PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and teaches English Language and Literature at eCampus University. Her recent publications include the monograph Early Modern English Trials: Pragmatic Influences on Thou and You (Loffredo Editore, 2024), as well as articles in the fields of stylistics, cognitive poetics, and corpus linguistics, including “Contamination between Stylistics and Cognitive Poetics: An Analysis of Lord Randal” (Testo e Senso, 2022); “The Paralysing Sea: A Cognitive Analysis of the Discourse Worlds in James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’” (Ticontre. Teoria Testo e Traduzione, 2022); and “The Corpus of Early Modern English Trials (1650–1700): Building the Corpus and Hypotheses of Normalization” (Status Quaestionis, 2023).