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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/96984| Title: | English in Valletta’s linguistic landscape : a case of instrumental rationality? |
| Authors: | Sciriha, Lydia Vassallo, Mario |
| Keywords: | Bilingualism -- Malta Sociolinguistics -- Malta Language and languages -- Variation Linguistics -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Citation: | Sciriha, L., & Vassallo, M. (2023). English in Valletta’s linguistic landscape : a case of instrumental rationality? English Today, 39(2), 155-164. |
| Abstract: | Signage in Valletta is overwhelmingly in English, while signs in Maltese are only visible when government measures are enforced. Cities are the natural homes for linguistic and cultural diversity. Valletta, Malta's capital city and the smallest city in the European Union, is no different. When its foundation stone was laid in 1566 by Grandmaster Jean Parisot de Vallette, it was given the formal title of Humillima Civitas Valettae, but ‘there is little that is humble about the appearance of Valletta, that city “built by gentlemen for gentlemen”’ (Luke, 1968: 65). [Excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/96984 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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