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Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral
prompts
Scientific literature has tackled Maltese English (MaltE) mainly in the framework of World Englishes in order to
focus on its features compared to other varieties of English around the world. In this paper we shed more light on MaltE by
proposing a sociolinguistic perspective, oriented towards its social stratification, and by referring to it through degrees of
linguistic competence in English. We therefore propose two continua of variation: MaltE as an L2 continuum and as a situational
one. Within this framework, we identify two groups defined as Mainly Maltese Speakers (MMS) and Mainly English Speakers (MES). We
suggest that MaltE can be interpreted both as an L2, and as a variety used according to speech events, domain, participants,
in-groupness etc. To investigate this we carried out a perceptual experiment involving two groups of university students,
specialising in Maltese and English respectively. We discuss the results based on ratings and evaluations of authentic MaltE
written and spoken prompts.
期刊介绍:
English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.