Author: Nardini, Gloria
Title: Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, x, 164 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: My Methodology: The Ethnography of Communication; A Definition of 'Bella Figura'; The Conceptual Framework of this Study & Related Literature on Women's Language; A History of the Collandia Club; Bella Figura at the Collandia Club; The Transcript: A Linguistic Event Transformed by Bella Figura; Conclusion; Appendices.

Keywords: Linguistic Sociology, Womens' Language, Sociolinguistics, Linguistics Women, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Communication, Italian-American, Ethnographic