Table of Contents

I: Establishing a Standard; 1: The Invention of greek: Macedonians, Poets and Others *; 2: The Greek Koine and the Logic of a Standard Language; 3: Primary Education in a Non-Standard Language as a Tool of Social and National Integration: The Case of Vernacular Greek, 1923–30; 4: Greek With No Models, History or Standard: Muslim Pontic Greek *; II: Standardization Practices; 5: The Lexica of the Second Sophistic: Safeguarding Atticism *; 6: Grammatical Metaphor and the Function of Participles in High-register Versions of the Life of Aesop *; 7: Orthographic Standardization of the Modern Greek Classics: Gain and Loss; 8: Correcting the Courtroom Cat: Editorial Assaults on Cavafy's Poetry *; 9: Modern Greek Dictionaries and the Ideology of Standardization *; 10: Greek in Cyprus: Identity Oscillations and Language Planning; 11: ‘Greeklish': Transliteration Practice and Discourse in the Context of Computer-Mediated Digraphia; III: Ideologies and Contestations; 12: A Tradition of Anomaly: Towards the Regularization of the Greek Language; 13: Mothers and Daughters, Roots and Branches: Modern Greek Perceptions of the Relationship Between the Ancient and Modern Languages; 14: Constructing a Science of Language: Linguistics and Politics in Twentieth-Century Greece *; 15: ‘Language Issues' after the ‘Language Question': On the Modern Standards of Standard Modern Greek *; 16: Competing Ideologies and Post-Diglossia Greek: Analysing the Discourse of Contemporary ‘Myth-Breakers' *; 17: Korais and the Second Sophistic: The Hellenistic Novel as Paradigm for a Modern Literary Language