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dc.contributor.authorHarwood, Mark-
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-02T14:47:37Z-
dc.date.available2021-02-02T14:47:37Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationHarwood, M. (2021). Europeanization and language : the impact of EU language status on Maltese. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2021.1884534en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68405-
dc.description.abstractThis article explores an area of Europeanization literature not studied before, namely the impact of EU language status on a state language. Using Maltese, the Union’s only Semitic language, as a case study, the article explores how that status, the resources allocated to EU languages as well as the EU’s language programmes have impacted the Maltese language, its domestic status, use, corpus and its relationship with Malta’s other official language, English. Using a series of semi-structured interviews with the members of the National Council for the Maltese Language, we explore how the EU has impacted Maltese, noting that membership has enabled Maltese to gain greater prominence both within the country and beyond its shores, to strengthen its corpus with a rapid increase in available terminology and facilitate the use of the language through EU translation tools. That said, any long-term impact of ‘Brussels’ Maltese’ is unclear and the EU’s language programmes have had a negligible influence. As in many areas of socialisation, a key element has been the empowering of domestic reform coalitions which, in the case of Maltese, have been a significant factor in the language’s increased prominence and use post-membership.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessen_GB
dc.subjectEuropean Union -- Maltaen_GB
dc.subjectMaltese languageen_GB
dc.subjectLanguage policy -- European Union countriesen_GB
dc.subjectEuropean Union countries -- Languages -- Law and legislationen_GB
dc.titleEuropeanization and language : the impact of EU language status on Malteseen_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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dc.description.reviewedpeer-revieweden_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14782804.2021.1884534-
dc.publication.titleJournal of Contemporary European Studiesen_GB
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