Object

Group publication title:

Token

Abstract:

Eighty-one years after Pinocchio (1940), Walt Disney and Pixar are back with a new animated film set entirely in Italy, Luca (2021). It is a coming-of-age story based on a deep friendship between two sea monster boys and a human girl from Portorosso, an imaginary sea coastal town in the Cinque Terre (Liguria), in the nostalgic mid-1950s. This study intends to investigate the construction of Italianness in the film on the visual and acoustic levels. First, this article will briefly examine the visual representation of Italian people, objects and traditions that contribute to the overall construction of fictional Italianness in the film. Then, the fictional language used to characterise the inhabitants of Portorosso to distinguish them from the sea monsters will be examined in more detail; this will be done by analysing code-switching instances, where Italianisms will be included in four different categories. Unlike Pinocchio, Luca’s producers have created an artificial code that is of particular interest to researchers in the field of Sociolinguistics and Audiovisual Studies. This study will mainly focus on the construction of identity and Kozloff ’s functions of film dialogues. In the final sections of the article, which will analyse code-switching, Brown and Levinson’s impoliteness theory will also be addressed.

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 119-139

ISSN:

2299-5900

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

Date issued:

2021

Identifier:

oai:bibliotekacyfrowa.ujk.edu.pl:8005 ; doi:10.25951/4823

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Has part:

vol. 13/2021

Type:

tekst

Format:

application/pdf