An instance of triglossia?: Codeswitching as evidence for the present state of Greece’s ”language question”

• Autores: Effie Papatzikou Cochran
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 126, 1997, págs. 33-62
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper traces the history of Greek diglossia from ancient times, noting that there have only been two periods when the language was not diglossic.

    Against this background, it examines a series of spontaneous oral dialogues recorded in 1994. Their codeswitching patterns are analyzed to discover what has happened to Greek diglossia since the government's establishment in 1976 of populär-Greek äs its official language. The paper's principal conclusion is that common modern Greek in the late twentieth Century has indeed ceased to be diglossic.