A Reader in Greek Sociolinguistics

Contents: Alexandra Georgakopoulou/Marianna Spanaki: Introduction - Peter Trudgill: The Ausbau sociolinguistics of Greek as a minority and majority language - Janet Holmes/Mary Roberts/Maria Verivaki/'Anahina' Aipolo: Language maintenance and shift in three New Zealand speech communities - Roula Tsokalidou: Women on the cusp - a case of bilingual women - Margaret Alexiou: Diglossia in Greece - Dimitris Tziovas: Residual orality and belated textuality in Greek literature and culture - Maria Sifianou: On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece - Theodossia Pavlidou: Cooperation and the choice of linguistic means: some evidence from the use of the subjunctive in Modern Greek - Angélique Petrits: Addressing in Modern Greek: evidence from a case study in the Athens central market - Deborah Tannen/Christina Kakava: Power and solidarity in Modern Greek conversation: disagreeing to agree - Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou: Interruption revisited: affiliative vs. disaffiliative intervention - Anna Iordanidou/Jannis Androutsopoulos: Youth slang in Modern Greek - Alexandra Georgakopoulou: Self-presentation and interactional alliances in e-mail discourse: the style- and code-switches of Greek messages - Michael Herzfeld: Silence, submission and subversion: toward a poetics of womanhood - Renée Hirschon: Greek adults' verbal play, or, how to train for caution.

The Editors: Alexandra Georgakopoulou is a Lecturer in Modern Greek Language at King's College London. She has published widely on discourse analysis and co-authored (with Dionysis Goutsos) Discourse Analysis, An Introduction (Edinburgh, 1997). She has also published Narrative Performances: A Study of Modern Greek Storytelling. (Amsterdam, 1997). Her research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cross cultural communication, educational linguistics and media.
Marianna Spanaki teaches Modern Greek Language and Culture at the University of Birmingham, Britain. She has published on translation studies, intertextuality, gender and Modern Greek language and literature. Her research interests include language studies in education, multilingualism, media and cultural studies.

"This is a timely publication, which could prove very useful to scholars working on sociolinguistic issues in Greek and other languages. [...] Overall, the book is a testament to the emergence of a dynamic field within Greek linguistics and of the high-quality work that has been accomplished." (Pavlos Pavlou, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development)
"...the volume under review constitutes a comprehensive overview of the major concerns in Greek sociolinguistics providing valuable insights into the ways the linguistic and the social interact. The selected papers cover a wide range of issues and ways of exploring them. [...] the book is an important contribution to the Greek sociolinguistic literature and can be used as useful resource by anyone who has an interest in the field." (Maria Kakridi-Ferrari, Journal of Sociolinguistics)