A Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift: Arvanítika (Albanian) and Greek in Contact

by Lukas D. Tsitsipis

Overview

This book explores a case of linguistic shift in the Balkans by focusing on Arvanitika, an Albanian variety spoken in Greece which is under threat through a process of attrition. The author looks in detail at the various factors relating the linguistic to the non-linguistic aspects of the shift.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198237310
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/07/1999
Series:	Oxford Studies in Language Contact
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 14.50(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Theoretical Discussion and Research Focus2. On the Politics of Change3. On Sociolinguistic Change4. Performance and Ethnohistory5. The Contextualization of Terminal-Speaker Discourse and the Production of an Across the Border Voice: Beyond Grammar6. The Coding of Linguistic Ideology and Arvanitika Linguistic Ideology7. Concluding Remarks on Ideology and Shift: Language Ideology as a Discursive and Reconstructible Phenomenon