Ritratti e racconti del corpus GULP. Rappresentazioni multimodali di repertori linguistici plurali di immigrati adulti

The aim of this paper is to present a learner corpus collected in a volunteer organization in Naples as part of a still ongoing project on plurilingual and intercultural education and translanguaging. So far, we have collected the linguistic portraits and oral autobiographies in L2 Italian of 171 adult immigrants, including 81 women, mean age 32, representing 40 nationalities, 28 mother tongues and different levels of second language proficiency and educational backgrounds. The article proposes a multidimensional analysis of the acquired data, based on graphic, textual and prosodic aspects, with the aim of observing affective schemes and attitudes in the multimodal representation of plural linguistic repertoires. Some significant examples from the corpus are provided and described in detail.