Il furbesco della fiction. La lingua di Gomorra – La serie

The present article focuses on Italian and Neapolitan language contact in Italian TV series. In detail, I will analyze the dialect in Gomorra - La serie, an Italian serial TV show based on Roberto Saviano's homonymous book. I will establish how the Neapolitan dialect is being used in the show and describe its relationship with standard Italian and colloquial Italian. The corpus is based on the first two seasons of Gomorra, each comprising twelve episodes. The article aims to highlight linguistic characteristics such as lexical and morphosyntactic features, i.e. a slangy and often ungrammatical use of language, and the relationship between dialect and spoken Italian in Italian TV crime shows.