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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Modern Greek

150-272/372 The Modern Greek Language Controversy

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Ms A Chatzinikolaou

Prerequisite/s:

Intermediate Modern Greek B or Advanced Modern Greek 2 or equivalent.

Contact:

Up to three hours per week.

Subject Description:

The subject traces the development of the literary, educational and social/political dispute between the linguistic purists and the advocates of demotic modern Greek. Particular attention is given to the emergence of the Demoticist movement in the literature and educational reform in the 19th and 20th centuries and to various manifestations of diglossia in contemporary Greece.

Assessment:

3000 words of written work (50 %) and a 2-hour examination (50 %).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Vilaras I et. al, I dimotikistiki antidrasi stin Koraiki 'mesi odo', Odysseas.
  • Solomos D, O dialogos tou piiti, Zacharopoulos.
  • Psiharis Y, To Taxidi mou, Ermis.
  • Dimaras A, I metarithmisi pou den eyine, (Vols 1 and 2) Ermis.
  • Patrikou-Stavrou R, Dimotikismos ke kinoniko provlima, Ermis.
  • Frangoudaki A, Glossa ke ideologia, Odysseas.
  • , O dimosios dialogos yia ti glossa, Domos.
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