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Publication details [#35078]

Frangoudaki, Anna. 1992. Diglossia and the present language situation in Greece: A sociological approach to the interpretation of diglossia and some hypotheses on today's linguistic reality. Language in Society 21 (3) : 365–381.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

diglossia | function | language use | sociology

Language as a subject

Greek, Demotic | Greek, Katharevousa

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper proposes an alternative approach to the Greek historical diglossic phenomenon, emphasizing the differing social functions of Demotic (public) and Katharevousa ('pure') Greek. It also discusses the recent metalinguistic prophecy of language decline, and the ensuing questioning of Demotic Greek.