A linguistic anthropology of praxis and language shift : Arvanítika (Albanian) and Greek in contact / Lukas D. Tsitsipis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsitsipis, Lukas D.

Series:

Oxford studies in language contact

Language:

Albanian

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Code switching (Linguistics)--Greece.

Code switching (Linguistics).

Languages in contact--Greece.

Languages in contact.

Albanian language--Dialects--Greece.

Albanian language.

Greek language, Modern--Social aspects.

Greek language, Modern.

Sociolinguistics--Greece.

Sociolinguistics.

Anthropological linguistics--Greece.

Anthropological linguistics.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Albanian language--Dialects.

Greece.

Physical Description:

x, 163 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

This book explores a case of linguistic shift in the Balkans by focusing on Arvanitika, an Albanian variety spoken in Greece which is under threat through a process of attrition. The author looks in detail at the various factors relating the linguistic to the non-linguistic aspects of the shift.

Notes:

Some sections are revisions of articles previously published in various sources.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-156) and index.

ISBN:

0198237316

OCLC:

38079173