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Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Ioannidou, Elena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This paper examines language stylization in "Aigia Fuxia" ("The Fuchsia Goat"), a highly popular Greek Cypriot sitcom, where the (imagined) linguistic and socio-cultural "self" of a dialect-speaking community is subjected to extreme and aberrant stylization. The overarching filmic and generic trademark of "Aigia…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Greek
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Hadjioannou, Xenia; Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Kappler, Matthias – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The aim of this monograph is to provide a detailed account of language policy and language planning in Cyprus. Using both historical and synchronic data and adopting a mixed-methods approach (archival research, ethnographic tools and insights from sociolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis), this study attempts to trace the origins and the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Nationalism, National Standards