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Publication details [#56376]

Tsiplakou, Stavroula. 2012. Stylizing stylization: The case of Aigia Fuxia. Multilingua 31 (2) : 277–299.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience response | language use | sociolinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2 | television soap

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This article explores language stylization in a very popular Greek Cypriot sitcom, 'Aigia Fuxia', in which a dialect speeking community's linguistic and socio-cultural 'self' is subjected to extremely deflected stylization.