10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KATHAREVUSA»
Discover the use of
Katharevusa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Katharevusa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cyprus, Greece, and Malta
The emergence of a Greek national identity in the 19th century and the
development of a modern, independent Greek state were accompanied by the
development of two distinct varieties of the Greek language: Katharevusa, an
artificial, purist ...
Britannica Educational Publishing, Noah Tesch, 2013
2
Comparative Legal Linguistics: Language of Law, Latin and ...
This name reads in Katharevusa: 'Astikòs Kôdix (ἈστικὸζKῶδιξ), and in Demotic:
Astikós Kódikas (AστικóζKώδικαζ). Another example, thetitle of Article 3ofthe
Code,whichtranslates as 'Principles ofpublic policy': Kanónes dimosías táxeos ...
Professor Heikki E S Mattila, 2013
3
Essential Modern Greek Grammar
A WORD ABOUT “KATHAREVUSA” 3 allow you to communicate and be
understood. Ifyou pay attention to what you're doing, you will find that eventually
you make fewer and fewer errors. Sooner or later you'll be able to review
Essential ...
4
Politics in Modern Greece
Moreover, differences in the spoken language remained. This language
differentiation, introduced early in the nineteenth century, still exists in a
tempered form. Until 1911, katharevusa was the official language of the elite and
of those striving ...
5
The Europeans, Second Edition: A Geography of People, ...
While a standard spoken form (Demotic Greek) arose, based largely on the
dialects of the Peloponnese, the national literary language, the Katharevusa, or “
purified language,” was modeled on classical Greek. The latter became the
medium ...
Robert C. Ostergren, Mathias Le Bosse, 2011
6
Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social ...
"Modern Greek refers to katharevusa, which was the official language of the
Greek kingdom. It is revealing that while Ancient Greek was taught since the
system's creation, katharevusa was only taught since 1884. Source: Tsoukalas (
1987 ...
7
The Other Self: Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction
In my view these formal expressions do not represent individual use of
Katharevusa so much as a desire on behalf of the two narrators to participate in
the public discourse by showing that they can handle it adequately. The fact that
the two ...
8
The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms
The last seems to be the best point of departure, Dimitris Tziovas suggests, as it
was in and out of the conflict between the purists (the elite using the artificial
register of katharevusa) and the populists (the multi-strata using the vernacular)
in the ...
Mark Wollaeger, Matt Eatough, 2012
9
Strength Relations in Phonology
Katharevusa was a constructed language that nobody spoke consistently (
Browning 1983). It was used in literature, education and for official purposes, and
became more and more remote from the comprehension of the average Greek.
Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley, 2009
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Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features
It is also Romanian, Romani and Turkish living in Greece. spoken as a second
language by speakers of Macedonian, Bulgarian, Aromanian, Megleno- 4.1.2
Modern Greek has two standards: the archaic high-style Katharevusa 'purified'
and ...
