Abstract
Couroucli Maria - "Diglossia and double talk. Languages and speech about honour in Greece". Linguistic situation of modern Greece is characterised as diglossia: coexistence of a highly dialectalised "folk" language (dimotiki) and of a "purified" language (katharevousa), which is both official and written. Some speech habits involving demotics are transcribed-translated into katharevousa within official reports. So, by analysing the records of hearings of a county court in Crete, one can display those moments when folk language irrupts into the translation, in relation with the latent conflict between official law and customary law. An anthropological study of "crimes of honour" and of their proceeding within the universe of modern law can be derived, and shows the mediating role of the popular jury.
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