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Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976 (Paperback)
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Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976 (Paperback)
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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 the Greeks'
relationship to the ancients, and on the other by the different
groups' contrasting notions of what the national image so embodied
should be. The purists wanted a written language close to the
ancient. The vernacularists - later known as demoticists - sought
to match written language to spoken, claiming the latter to be the
product of the unbroken development of Greek since the time of
Homer. Peter Mackridge explores the political, social, and
linguistic causes and effects of the controversy in its many
manifestations. Drawing on a wide range of evidence from
literature, language, history, and anthropology, he traces its
effects on spoken and written varieties of Greek and shows its
impact on those in use today. He describes the efforts of
linguistic elites and the state to achieve language standardization
and independence from languages such as Turkish, Albanian, Vlach,
and Slavonic. This is a timely book. The sense of national and
linguistic identity that has been inculcated into generations of
Greeks since the start of the War of Independence in 1821 has, in
the last 25 years, received blows from which it may not recover.
Immigration from Eastern Europe and elsewhere has introduced new
populations whose religions, languages, and cultures are
transforming Greece into a country quite different from what it has
been and to what it once aspired to be.
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