30.1684, Books: Maltralian: The Maltese Ethnolect of Australia: Bovingdon

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Subject: 30.1684, Books: Maltralian: The Maltese Ethnolect of Australia: Bovingdon

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:17:49
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Maltralian: The Maltese Ethnolect of Australia: Bovingdon

 


Title: Maltralian: The Maltese Ethnolect of Australia 
Series Title: LINCOM Grammar Surveys 02  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LGS-02-Maltralian-The-Maltese-Ethnolect-of-Australia/en 


Author: Roderick Bovingdon

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889204 Pages: 144 Price: Europe EURO 70.80


Abstract:

This analytical compilation of the Maltese language as it has developed within
an Australian social environment is a revised and supplemented edition of its
forerunner ‘The Maltese Language of Australia: Maltraljan’ published in 2001
in the series ‘Languages of the World 16’ by Lincom Europa.

A completely new section has been added to this edition in which a more
in-depth linguistics analysis of the original terminology along with added
lexicographical material is included. Here one finds a comprehensive layout of
one of Australia’s many migrant groups’ ethnolects - that of the Maltese -
most of whom settled in Australia during the first six decades of our previous
century.

Various linguistic aspects of their Maltralian ethnolect are analysed together
with added comparisons to Australitalian – the Italian ethnolect of Australia
- as well as a fleeting look at Egyptian Maltese, another variety of Maltese
that evolved along the north African littoral during the century prior to the
Australian saga. 

As a language with a Semitic base of different strains of Arabic, superimposed
by a mixed Sicilian lexicon with later additions from Italian followed by
English as the latter language of influence, it is interesting to note how
Maltese has adapted to its relatively recent Australian environment - away
from its former direct Mediterranean influence of mixed Arabic and Romance
superimposed by British English influence.

This chronologically recent Australian saga is here examined in its
historical, geographical and cultural background, remote from its former
northern hemisphere language forces. The end result of this milieu is the
emergence of this albeit transient Maltralian ethnolect; one of several such
language developments amid Australia’s multifaceted demographic entity it has
become in this 21st century.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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