Sandro Caruana

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sandro Caruana plays a role.

Articles

Scientific literature has tackled Maltese English (MaltE) mainly in the framework of World Englishes in order to focus on its features compared to other varieties of English around the world. In this paper we shed more light on MaltE by proposing a sociolinguistic perspective, oriented towards… read more
Portelli, Sergio and Sandro Caruana 2018 Chapter 11. Observing Eurolects: The case of MalteseObserving Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law, Mori, Laura (ed.), pp. 268–293 | Chapter
Although Maltese is genetically a Semitic language, several technical terms, including those used within EU institutions, are integrated or non-integrated loanwords of Italian or English origin. Contact is also evident in the morphology of Maltese, and concatenative structures are productive… read more
Gauci, Phyllisienne, Elisa Ghia and Sandro Caruana 2017 Chapter 14. The pragmatic competence of student-teachers of Italian L2Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, Kecskés, István and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 323–345 | Chapter
Pragmatics is rarely included in teacher-training courses. It is therefore worth investigating whether student-teachers of an L2 are familiar with it, especially when the pragmatic features under question are L2-specific. In this paper, we present results from an investigation on 15 Maltese future… read more
Caruana, Sandro 2009 Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"?Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007, Comrie, Bernard, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 355–375 | Article