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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045

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.