Standard Languages and Language Standards - Greek, Past and Present

by Michael Silk

This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value, processes of establishing a standard and practices and ideologies of standardization, over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. With a wide range of topics, from contested educational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138261858
• ISBN13: 9781138261853
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"