Sandro Caruana
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sandro Caruana is involved.
2025 Parlare italiano a Malta è un extra benefit: The linguistic repertoire of Italians in Malta and the use and maintenance of their L1 Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio and Margherita Di Salvo (eds.), pp. 101–129 | Chapter
The recent influx of Italians in Malta is extraordinary insofar as numbers are concerned, to the extent that today they represent one of the the largest group of non-nationals in gainful occupation on the island. Their engagement within an Anglophone community broadens their linguistic… read more
2021 Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral prompts English World-Wide 42:3, pp. 245–272 | Article
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
2018 Chapter 11. Observing Eurolects: The case of Maltese Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law, Mori, Laura (ed.), pp. 267–293 | 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
2017 Chapter 14. The pragmatic competence of student-teachers of Italian L2 Current 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
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