Il contatto italiano/dialetto in Sicilia. Analisi di un corpus di lingua scritta

The paper deals with a central topic of the contatct between Italian and dialect varieties: the writings of illiterate people. These authors write memories of their lives and to do it, they use all the linguistic varieties they know such as dialect and a kink of Italian that is deeply interfered from dialect. In this research it will be analyzed memories of Vincenzo Rabito, Tommaso Bordonaro and Carolina Drago, who have in common to be sicilian authors without education that want to eternize theri memories through writing. We will aanlayze their choices in the use of punctuation and testuality.