Standard languages and language standards
Subtitle: Greek, past and present
By: edited by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Michael Silk.
Contributors: Georgakopoulou, Alexandra.; Silk, M. S.
Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
Publisher: Ashgate Publ. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780754664376
Subjects: Greek language -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The invention of Greek : Macedonians, poets and others / Michael Silk; title: The Greek Koine and the logic of a standard language / Stephen Colvin; title: Primary education teaching in a non-standard language as a tool of social; title: And national integration : the case of vernacular Greek, 1923-30 / George Kritikos; title: Greek with no models, history or standard : Muslim Pontic Greek / Pietro Bortone; title: The lexica of the second sophistic : safeguarding atticism / Claudia Strobel; title: Grammatical metaphor and the function of participles in high-register versions of the life of Aesop / Chrystalla Thoma; title: Orthographic standardization of the modern Greek classics : gain and loss / David Ricks; title: Correcting the courtroom cat : editorial assaults on Cavafy's poetry / Anthony Hirst; title: Modern Greek dictionaries and the ideology of standardization / Asimakis Tseronis and Anna Iordanidou; title: Greek in Cyprus : identity oscillations and language planning / Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki; title: Greeklish : transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia / Jannis Androutsopoulos; title: A tradition of anomaly : towards the regularization of the Greek language / Emmanuel Kriaras; title: Mother and daughters, roots and branches : modern Greek perceptions; title: Of the relationship between the ancient and modern languages / Peter Mackridge; title: Constructing a science of language : linguistics and politics in twentieth-century Greece / Effi Gazi; title: Language issues after the language question : on the modern standards of standard modern Greek / Spiros Moschonas; title: Competing ideologies and post-diglossia Greek : analyzing the discourse of contemporary myth-breakers / Dionysis Goutsos; title: Korais and the second sophistic : the hellenistic novel as paradigm for a modern literary language / Roderick Beaton.