The Malta Language Question

THE MALTA LANGUAGE QUESTION

examines the complex and controversial phenomenon of language in Malta, an archipelago sandwiched between Europe and the Islamic world, a target of Italian and British imperial expansion, and caught in the cross-fire of a great duel between Western Liberalism and Fascism.  The Author studies the politicization of trilingualism (Maltese, Italian, English) in the British Crown Colony of Malta from the decades following the Unification of Italy (1861) to the present day.  By distinguishing linguistic and ethnological facts from the distortions of political propaganda, Geoffrey Hull seeks to answer the recurring question:  Who are the Maltese?

By: Hull Geoffrey

Format: Paperback

No of pages: 418