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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111568| Title: | L’acquisizione imperfetta di una lingua adstrato : l’italiano degli analfabeti a Malta dal Settecento al Novecento |
| Other Titles: | Politiche e pratiche per l’educazione linguistica, il multilinguismo e la comunicazione interculturale |
| Authors: | Brincat, Joseph M. (Giuseppe) |
| Keywords: | Malta -- History -- 18th century Malta -- History -- 20th century Italians -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Italians -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Italian language -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Italian language -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Italian literature -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Italian literature -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Literacy -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Literacy -- Malta -- History -- 20th century |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | SAIL Studi sull’apprendimento e l’insegnamento linguistico |
| Citation: | Brincat, G. (2021). L’italiano degli analfabeti a Malta dal Settecento al Novecento. In S. Caruana, K. Chircop, P. Gauci, & M. Pace (Eds.), Politiche e pratiche per l’educazione linguistica, il multilinguismo e la comunicazione interculturale (pp. 15-27). Venezia: SAIL Studi sull’apprendimento e l’insegnamento linguistico |
| Abstract: | The fact that Maltese has adopted over 20,000 Sicilian and Italian words, including 41% of its vocabulary at the Threshold Level, shows that this is not a case of borrowing at the higher social levels. To explain this unusual phenomenon the extraordinary growth in the island’s population and its rapid development under the Knights of St John and the British government are taken into account. Whereas works written in Italian from the 16th to the 20th century are abundant, and their quality is not inferior to those written in Italy, little is known about the efforts made by illiterate persons to speak the high language. The paper presents a few symptomatic comments and samples from the past, and from the present. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111568 |
| ISBN: | 9788869695018 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtIta |
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