Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present

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Contents: Foreword Introduction: Greek language-standardizing, past, present and future, Alexandra Georgakopoulou Part I Establishing a Standard: The invention of Greek: Macedonians, poets and others, Michael Silk The Greek koine and the logic of a standard language, Stephen Colvin Primary education teaching in a non-standard language as a tool of social and national integration: the case of vernacular Greek, 1923a 30, George Kritikos Greek with no models, history or standard: Muslim pontic Greek, Pietro Bortone. Part II Standardization Practices: The lexica of the 2nd sophistic: safeguarding Atticism, Claudia Strobel Grammatical metaphor and the function of participles in high-register versions of the Life of Aesop, Chrystalla Thoma Orthographic standardization of the modern Greek classics: gain and loss, David Ricks Correcting the courtroom cat: editorial assaults on Cavafy's poetry, Anthony Hirst Modern Greek dictionaries and the ideology of standardization, Assimakis Tseronis and Anna Iordanidou Greek in Cyprus: identity oscillations and language planning, Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki 'Greeklish': transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia, Jannis Androutsopoulos. Part III Ideologies and Contestations: A tradition of anomaly: towards the regularization of the Greek language, Emmanuel Kriaras Mother and daughters, roots and branches: modern Greek perceptions of the relationship between the ancient and modern languages, Peter Mackridge Constructing a science of language: linguistics and politics in 20th-century Greece, Effi Gazi 'Language issues' after the 'language question': on the modern standards of standard modern Greek, Spiros Moschonas Competing ideologies and post-diglossia Greek: analysing the discourse of contemporary' myth-breakers', Dionysis Goutsos Korais and the 2nd sophistic: the Hellenistic novel as paradigm for a modern literary language, Roderick Beaton Indexes.