University of Malta

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Malta*

Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

EditorGiuliana Fenech & Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 18] 2026. | edited volume | open access

Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices. Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 11:2 (2020)

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar & Stavros Assimakopoulos

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics and Society, 11:2] 2020. | special issue

Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007

Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz & Martine Vanhove

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp. | edited volume

Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean. University of Malta, 2–5 September 1985

Edited by Anthony Bonanno

Subjects Miscellaneous

1986. xii, 356 pp. incl. 103 figures | monograph

Bezzina Busuttil, Anne-Marie 2025 Teachers’ questioning strategies and their implications for learner responses: A corpus-based study of spoken interaction in the French L2 classroom

Keywords: questioning strategies | French as a foreign language | spoken interaction | elaborate responses | restricted responses

In: Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages, Tyne, Henry & Stefania Spina (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] pp. 258–293

Portelli, Sergio 2025 Terminology development for lesser-used languages in bilingual contexts: The Maltese case

Keywords: Maltese language | bilingualism | language policy | terminology | translation

In: Handbook of Terminology: Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe, Resi, Rossella & Frieda Steurs (eds.) [Handbook of Terminology, 4] pp. 653–669

Caruana, Sandro 2025  Parlare italiano a Malta è un extra benefit : The linguistic repertoire of Italians in Malta and the use and maintenance of their L1

Keywords: Italian | Malta | repertoires | language maintenance | language shift

In: Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio & Margherita Di Salvo (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 68] pp. 101–129

Assimakopoulos, Stavros, Anna Piata & Dimitris Serafis 2025 Using humour to call out racism: Taking offence on political satire

Keywords: political satire | racist backlash | humorous intent | speaker’s accountability | epistemic vigilance

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 pp. 178–207 | article

Gatt, Kurstin 2025 What’s in a name?: Names as ideological transmitters of the Salafi‑Jihadi worldview

Keywords: ideology | naming strategies | Salafi-Jihadism | socio-linguistics

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 21 pp. | article

Borg, Claudine, Carmen Heine & Hanna Risku 2025 Observations and diaries

In: Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, Rojo López, Ana María & Ricardo Muñoz Martín (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10] pp. 108–132

Spiteri Miggiani, Giselle 2025 Rethinking creativity in dubbing: Potential impact of AI dubbing technologies on creative practices, roles and viewer perceptions

Keywords: Dubbing script adaptation | creative intent | creative practices | AI dubs | speech-and-sound specialists

Translation Spaces | Online First Publication, 19 pp. | article

Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Anna Piata 2024 Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modality

Keywords: visual metaphor | conceptualization | political cartoons | migrant representations | ambivalence

In: Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris & Villy Tsakona (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 341] pp. 118–142

Chen, Wei 2024 The didactic features of James Summers’s (1828–1891) research on Chinese*

Historiographia Linguistica 51:1/3 pp. 364–385 | article

Borg, Claudine 2024 Revising a literary translation for publication: Insights from an autoethnographic study

Keywords: literary translation | revision | autoethnography | processes | practices | roles | networks | practisearchers

Translation Spaces 13:2 pp. 225–243 | article

Boukala, Salomi & Dimitris Serafis 2023 Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses: Exploring ethnic nationalism and the Greek ‘right’ to the name ‘Macedonia’

In: Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse , KhosraviNik, Majid (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 100] p. 83

Monteforte, Virginia 2023 Définir l’intelligence interculturelle: La valeur du désaccord et de la renégociation dialogique et collaborative lors d’une enquête ethnographique

Keywords: intelligence interculturelle | anthropologie | autorité ethnographique | terrain | mémoire sociale | intercultural intelligence | anthropology | ethnographic authority | fieldwork | social memory

FORUM 20:2 pp. 227–235 | article

Serafis, Dimitris, E. Dimitris Kitis & Stavros Assimakopoulos 2022 Sailing to Ithaka : The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union

Keywords: (de-)legitimation | populism | Greek/EU financial crisis | European Union | SYRIZA/Tsipras | critical discourse studies (CDS) | argumentation theory

Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 pp. 344–369 | article

Assimakopoulos, Stavros 2021 Beyond meaning_NN and ostension: Pragmatic inference in the wild1

Keywords: inferential pragmatics | relevance theory | ostension | meaningnn | non-intentional communication

In: Beyond Meaning, Ifantidou, Elly, Louis de Saussure & Tim Wharton (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 324] pp. 11–28

Assimakopoulos, Stavros 2022 Interpretation, relevance and the ideological effects of discursive practice

Keywords: critical discourse studies | ideology | speaker intentions | relevance theory

Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 pp. 394–415 | article

Caruana, Sandro & Laura Mori 2021 Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral prompts

Keywords: Maltese English | sociolinguistics | L2 varieties | variational patterns | bilingual competence

English World-Wide 42:3 pp. 245–272 | article

Nieder, Jessica, Ruben van de Vijver & Holger Mitterer 2021 Priming Maltese plurals: Representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon

Keywords: cross-modal priming | Maltese plurals | morphological processing | single-mechanism | word and paradigm

The Mental Lexicon 16:1 pp. 69–97 | article

Assimakopoulos, Stavros 2020 Incitement to discriminatory hatred, illocution and perlocution

Keywords: hate speech | incitement | discriminatory discourse | speech act theory | illocution | perlocution

Pragmatics and Society 11:2 pp. 177–195 | article

Baider, Fabienne, Sharon Millar & Stavros Assimakopoulos 2020 Introduction: Defining, performing and countering hate speech

Pragmatics and Society 11:2 pp. 171–176 | introduction

Borg, Claudine 2019 Written alternative translation solutions in the translation process: A case study

Keywords: written alternative translation solutions | decision-making | draft translation | literary translation | translation process research

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 2:1 pp. 55–78 | article

Mifsud, Charles L. & Zuzana Petrová 2018 Literacy education in the digital age

In: Learning to Read in a Digital World , Barzillai, Mirit, Jenny Thomson, Sascha Schroeder & Paul van den Broek (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 17] pp. 165–184

Vassallo, Odette 2016 Chapter 5. Enhancing responses to literary texts with L2 learners: An empirically derived pedagogical framework

Keywords: L2 learner-readers | literariness | literary reading processes | stylistics | think aloud protocols

In: Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments, Burke, Michael, Olivia Fialho & Sonia Zyngier (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24] p. 83

Vella, Alexandra 2008 Language contact and Maltese intonation: Some parallels with other language varieties

In: Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History, Braunmüller, Kurt & Gisella Ferraresi (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] pp. 261–283

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.