Mediterranean Language Review 29 (2022)

The Mediterranean Language Review is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean. Articles, reviews and review articles address issues relating to multiple aspects of Mediterranean languages, past and present. Among these are essays discussing linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean area and its hinterland, as well as interaction of language and culture in the region. Sociolinguistic aspects, religion and language, and linguistic stratification with areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean littoral are focused on. Finally, the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities, ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean, the interlinguas Kultursprachen and Mediterranean Lingua Franca, as well as approaches to Mediterranean lexicology sum up the journal’s objects of study. From the contents (altogether 11 contributions): Valentina Retaro, Riflessi linguistici dell’emigrazione dei pescatori flegrei in Algeria: il caso di Mers el Kebir Mladen Ciric, A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Brazilian Female Diaspora in Serbia Svetlana Cirkovic & Mirjana Miric, Serbian Loanverb Adaptation in the Gurbet Romani Variety in Eastern Serbia Monica Genesin & Joachim Matzinger, Urban Streetscapes in Albania – The Street Names of Tirana, a Preliminary Report with Special Emphasis on the Italian Influence until 1944 Popi Theophanous & Marilena Karyolemou, From Local to Global and Back Again: Language Use in Corporate Communication in Cyprus