Book 2010
Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Published
- 2010
- History
- Language policy
- Modern Greek language
- Nationalism
- Greece, intellectual life
- Greek language, history
- Greek language, modern
- Nationalism, greece
This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over 200 years. Mackridge explores the political, social and linguistic causes and effects of the controversy in its many and passionate manifestations.