Title
Gastronymies': Naming Food in Italian-American Restaurants' Menus in New York and St. Louis
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Literature and Languages
Date of Award
Summer 2012
Abstract
The way in which Italian language words have been translated in American menus conceals many cultural processes. The focus of this research is the analysis of the language used in the menus of Italian restaurants in the USA; in particular, deviations from the norm in the use of Italian words and expressions that seem to be the result of language in contact phenomena are analyzed from a linguistic perspective. The current analysis aims to investigate the linguistic convergence between Italian and English, exploring at what linguistic level (morphological, lexical, phonological, or syntactic) the integration between these languages occurs in the menus which have been considered in this work as a genre of written text.
Advisor
Lucy Pickering
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities
Recommended Citation
Vassallo, Roberta, "Gastronymies': Naming Food in Italian-American Restaurants' Menus in New York and St. Louis" (2012). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 90.
https://digitalcommons.tamuc.edu/etd/90
