Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present
Greek , Past and Present
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 3 September 2009
- ISBN 9780754664376
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages396 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value, processes of establishing a standard and practices and ideologies of standardization, over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. With a wide range of topics, from contested educational initiatives to competing understandings of the Greek language, from the Hellenistic koine to cyber-Greek, the volume provides a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of Greek and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.
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Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek, Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.
’...this is an important volume, which contains papers by many well-known scholars of ancient and modern Greek. ...[it] will be very useful to everyone interested in the history of the Greek language, especially on topics relating to language standardization and 'diglossia', in both the koine and modern Greek.’ Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents:
I: Establishing a Standard; 1: The Invention of greek: Macedonians, Poets and Others *; 2: The Greek Koine and the Logic of a Standard Language; 3: Primary Education in a Non-Standard Language as a Tool of Social and National Integration: The Case of Vernacular Greek, 1923–30; 4: Greek With No Models, History or Standard: Muslim Pontic Greek *; II: Standardization Practices; 5: The Lexica of the Second Sophistic: Safeguarding Atticism *; 6: Grammatical Metaphor and the Function of Participles in High-register Versions of the Life of Aesop *; 7: Orthographic Standardization of the Modern Greek Classics: Gain and Loss; 8: Correcting the Courtroom Cat: Editorial Assaults on Cavafy's Poetry *; 9: Modern Greek Dictionaries and the Ideology of Standardization *; 10: Greek in Cyprus: Identity Oscillations and Language Planning; 11: ‘Greeklish': Transliteration Practice and Discourse in the Context of Computer-Mediated Digraphia; III: Ideologies and Contestations; 12: A Tradition of Anomaly: Towards the Regularization of the Greek Language; 13: Mothers and Daughters, Roots and Branches: Modern Greek Perceptions of the Relationship Between the Ancient and Modern Languages; 14: Constructing a Science of Language: Linguistics and Politics in Twentieth-Century Greece *; 15: ‘Language Issues' after the ‘Language Question': On the Modern Standards of Standard Modern Greek *; 16: Competing Ideologies and Post-Diglossia Greek: Analysing the Discourse of Contemporary ‘Myth-Breakers' *; 17: Korais and the Second Sophistic: The Hellenistic Novel as Paradigm for a Modern Literary Language
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