Paesaggi linguistici e contesti migrati: variabili temporali e spaziali nella vitalità delle scritture esposte

This study investigates how public and linguistic spaces shape the construction and negotiation of collective identity within long-established migrant communities. Focusing on Manhattan’s Little Italy, Milan’s Chinatown, and Rome’s Esquilino, it explores public space as a site of interaction and meaning making, supported by linguistic space as a dynamic hierarchy of codes and varieties. The analysis of displayed writing – institutional, commercial, and spontaneous – reveals the gradual incorporation of heritage languages into the urban landscape. Migrant districts emerge as arenas of memory and symbolic innovation, where belonging is renegotiated through hybrid and transnational practices. Findings show that settlement duration, language function, and the interaction of space and writing drive the absorption of migrant features. These dynamics generate complex, evolving cultural landscapes within the urban networks.