Language and national identity in Greece, 1766-1976 / Peter Mackridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackridge, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language, Modern--Political aspects--History.

Greek language, Modern.

Nationalism--Greece--History.

Nationalism.

Language policy--Greece.

Language policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth-century when a group of Greek intellectuals sought to develop a new, Hellenic, national identity alongside the traditional identity supplied by Orthodox Christianity. The ensuing controversy focused on the language, fuelled on the one hand by a desire to develop a form of Greek that expressed theGreeks' relationship to the ancients, and on the other by the different groups' contrasting notions of what the nati

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Transliteration from Greek and pronunciation of Greek words; Maps and illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Theoretical background; 2 The preconditions for the Greek language controversy; 3 The early stages of the controversy, 1766-1804; 4 Adamantios Korais as language reformer; 5 Alternative proposals to Korais' project, 1804-1830; 6 Language in the two Greek states, 1830-1880; 7 The beginning of the demoticist campaign, 1880-1897; 8 Educational demoticism and political reform, 1897-1922; 9 The political polarization of the language question, 1922-1976; 10 Epilogue; Glossary

AB; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; V; W; Y; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-369) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-959905-X

1-282-26806-6

9786612268069

0-19-155034-5

OCLC:

438101435