Anne-Marie Bezzina (pictured) graduated from the University of Malta, with a PhD in Linguistics, and concurrently with a Doctorat en Sciences du Langage from the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

Her thesis contained a sociolinguistic study of language use in Malta and France, and concerned more specifically stylistic variations in Maltese, with a comparison to French.

For her analysis, she built a large corpus of naturally occurring speech in situations marked by different levels of formality.

She was unanimously awarded the highest grade of Très honorable avec félicitations du jury.

At the University of Malta, she was reading for her studies within the Institute of Linguistics, and at the French university, she was studying within the Doctoral School Connaissance, langage, modélisation and the Research Laboratory Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus.

Her dissertation supervisors were Prof. Albert Borg from the University of Malta and Prof. Françoise Gadet from the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.

Bezzina, a university lecturer, is the course coordinator for French in the Department of Arts and Languages in Education of the Faculty of Education.

The doctoral course was carried out following the award of a Malta Government Scholarship Scheme grant.

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