Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek, Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0754664376
ISBN-13
9780754664376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73912792
Product Key Features
Author
Michael Silk
Publication Name
Standard Languages and Language Standards-Greek, Past and Present
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
396 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
32 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pa227
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
General, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), Linguistics / General
Lccn
2009-008259
Dewey Decimal
480.9
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
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