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Publication details [#50975]

Tsitsipis, Lukas. 2009. The discursive construction of multiple identities of the Albanian (Arvanitika) speakers of Greece. Pragmatics 19 (3) : 435–448.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | ethnicity | identity negotiation | language and culture | minority language

Language as a subject

Albanian

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study explores the complex issue of multiple discursive identity construction among minority Albanian speakers in modern Greece, who both refer to themselves as Albanians and as 'we', blurring in the latter case the rigid boundaries often surrounding ethnolinguistic groups.