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 150-272 The Modern Greek Language Controversy

Note

Available as 150-372 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Ms A Chatzinikolaou

Prerequisites

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.
  • NO_AUTHOR, O dimosios dialogos yia ti glossa. Domos.
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