‘Quella era veramente è Little Italy, la nostra Little Italy’: Multiple centres, cultural presence and the articulation of spaces of speech from Tasmania

Abstract

The telling of migrant experiences is in itself a prolific endeavour, when individuals create a sense of old and new ways of living, explaining to others facts that help them to make sense of their past and their present. Crucially, when doing so, the migrants' linguistic resources can allow them to produce, together with an interlocutor, something that goes beyond the act of telling. They create a new space, which is intrinsically interactional, that is, created for and through language exchanges (Li Wei 2011, 1223. Precisely this space, here not