10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KATHAREVOUSA»
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Katharevousa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature
KATHAREVOUSA This word katha- revousa was originally a metaphor to define
the learned form of Greek as "purifying" (see Purist). The term is highly charged,
as well as technical. It stands for the prestige variety of classicizing Greek, ...
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Social Dialectology: In Honour of Peter Trudgill
Greek diglossia Greek is among the classic examples of diglossia discussed by
Ferguson (1959), with Katharevousa ('purified language') as the High variety and
Demotiki ('people's language') as the Low one, a phenomenon that existed for ...
Peter Trudgill, David Britain, Jenny Cheshire, 2003
3
Standard Languages: Spoken and Written
The 1976 legislation, which first stipulated the use of demotic for all educational
purposes, and later removed the clause in the constitution stating that
katharevousa is the official language of the State, is too recent to have been
implemented.
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Ammon, Ulrich; Dittmar, Norbert; Mattheier, Klaus J.; ...
Katharevousa vs Dhimotiki When Greece achieved independence, a number of
solutions were advanced to solve the problem of what form the standard written
language of the nation should take. The fact that contemporary vernacular Greek
...
Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier, 2006
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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Background to Contemporary Greece
KATHAREVOUSA (c. 1800-1974) AN OBITUARY FOR AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Peter Mackridge The son of a great poet used to say that the profitless burden
which he was condemned by irrevocable ill fortune to bear on his shoulders ...
Marion Saraphē, Martin Eve, 1990
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A Language Policy for the European Community: Prospects and ...
been exclusively reserved to Katharevousa ("the purified language"), an artificial
variety using as its prototype Ancient Greek. In the course of one and a half
centuries, Demotic Greek became a symbol of progress, mainly connected with ...
8
Grafting Helen: The Abduction of the Classical Past
It was only in the 1980s that demotic Greek replaced katharevousa as the
national language. Katharevousa means “a pure flowing.” It would be diflicult to
find a better example of the trope of cultural continuity translated into linguistic
terms.
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A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late ...
cry for the people.It became a language of the learned people,incorporating the
rich literary tradition, excluded until then from katharevousa's literary canon.
Literary works such as the Renaissance Cretan poem Erotokritos and the
memoirs of ...
Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs, Maria Arapopoulou, Maria Chritē, 2007
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Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity ...
Indeed, katharevousa gradually came to prevail as the language of the
administration, newspapers, and education. It also had the capacity to absorb
significant morphological influences and loans from Ancient Greek. It was a
compromise.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KATHAREVOUSA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Katharevousa is used in the context of the following news items.
Modern Greek for Postgraduates and Early Career Scholars of …
... used in archaeological publications, from excavation reports and object catalogues to theoretical studies, and from current demotic Greek to katharevousa. «Archaeological Institute of America Latest News, May 15»
Tragedy for ancient Greek at last non-selective state school
... the official tongue was not everyday spoken Greek ('demotike') but an artificial language heavily influenced by old Attic ('katharevousa'). «The Guardian, Mar 15»
The Greek Revolution and Civil War: 70 years since the Battle of …
... bourgeois state, were public, free, and run in demotic, modern vernacular Greek, instead of the katharevousa high-Greek spoken by the elite. «In Defense of Marxism, Feb 15»
Emmanuel Kriaras, academic and campaigner, 1906-2014
To the so-called demoticists, katharevousa represented a form of cultural nationalism invented by 19th century politicians and educators ... «Financial Times, Aug 14»
Cyprus Bishop Tries to Regain Lost Clout
"I reacted to this with all the strength in my soul," he says in Katharevousa—a lofty mixture of ancient and modern Greek mostly spoken by ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 14»
Book review: Imagining Alexandria, By Louis de Bernières
As Louis de Bernières confesses in his introduction, “it is difficult to imitate his double game with katharevousa (a traditional, literary Greek) and ... «The Independent, Aug 13»
SYRIZA Downplays Obama-Samaras Meeting
In university the same leftist gibberish was spouted in “katharevousa” and even more convoluted pile of nothing. The sound of their own voice ... «Greek Reporter, Aug 13»
Abolish Church Slavonic and Institute a Vernacular?
Indeed, modern (Demotikhi) Greek has probably been dumbed down more by the anti-Katharevousa attitude (and the Church for a long time, ... «NFTU, Jun 13»
Greece's brush with linguicide
Eighty years previously people died in Athenian street riots over the ultimately successful proposal to replace 'high' katharevousa with the ... «Eureka Street, Apr 13»
It's all Greek to him
Many are written in classical Greek, in Katharevousa, the conservative or “High” form of modern Greek, or in the demotic Greek spoken by most ... «StarNewsOnline.com, Jan 13»
