WP196 Enregistering Inglaliano via parodic metacommentary

This paper explores the stylized use of English by and for speakers of Italian, particularly in media about Italy?s current prime minister and his political party. I briefly review the literature on Italian-English linguistic hybridity and draw on the citizen sociolinguistic term inglaliano as a means of posing a different paradigm for thinking about language contact between Italian and English. Drawing on work on mock languages, enregisterment, and stylization, I pose possible ways of thinking about inglaliano as a source and example of language ideological metacommentary.