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

ISBN-13: 9780198237310 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 176 str.

Lukas D. Tsitsipis

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The author's expert use of tools developed in disciplines like ethnography of speaking, linguistic ideology, Bakhtinian polyphonic discourse and the theory of narrative performance makes his approach to an issue of traditional interest to Balkanology quite innovative and promising.