During the second annual conference, six postgraduate researchers of Maltese presented their study on literature and language, and discussed it with their peers and lecturers. The conference, held at the Valletta Campus on Saturday 3 June 2023, brought together all postgraduate researchers, departmental lecturers, and other lecturers from the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology.
Raffaello Bezzina and Kelly Saliba both presented their Masters dissertations. Raffaello spoke about word formation in Maltese and Kelly discussed the emerging characteristics of the Maltese short story written at the beginning of the 21st century. Romario Sciberras, another Masters student, presented poststructuralist perspectives in relation to gender neutral language.
The final three speakers were PhD students: Jessica Micallef discussed the genre of the essay in Maltese writing, Joseph Buttigieg spoke about representativeness in a generic language corpus, and Clare Azzopardi discussed her research on silences in Post-90s Maltese fiction.
This conference is part of a series of seminars called ‘Appuntamenti mar-Riċerka’ which the Department of Maltese organises for its Masters and Doctoral students. These seminars offer an informal and supportive environment for postgraduate researchers to discuss their work in progress.
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