Levelling, koineization and their implications for bidialectism

Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Papapavlou, Andreas; Pavlou, Pavlos; Katsoyannou, Marianna

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“…The first factor to take into account is that diglossia between Cypriot and Standard Greek (Papapavlou 1998;Tsiplakou et al 2006) has been prevalent for centuries and, as is typical of most diglossic speech communities, this has led to varying and often conflicting takes on the relationship between language and identity in the Cypriot context (Ioannidou 2004;Tsiplakou 2004Tsiplakou , 2007aTsiplakou , 2007bTsiplakou , 2009bTsiplakou et al 2006). Generally speaking.…”

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Stylizing stylization: The case of Aigia Fuxia

Tsiplakou

Isabel

2012

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This paper examiues lauguage stylizatiou iu Aigia Fuxia ('The FuchsiaGoat'), a highly popular Greek Cypriot sitcom, where the (Imagiued) liuguistic and socio-cultural 'self of a dialect-speaking community is subjected to extreme and aberrant stylizatiou. The overarchiug filmic aud geueric trademark o/Aigia Fuxia is its cousisteut piupoiutiug of its iutertextual relations to well-established Cypriot comedie media genres, in which the language aud the lifestyle of the 'rural' part of the speech community is performed followiug specific geueric aud linguistic couveutious. Aigia Fuxia dismautles these couveutious through the artful deploymeut of a medley of couteut, geueric, aud filmic choices aud, crucially, through extreme dialect stylizatiou, ultimately a 'de-autheuticiziug' move, especially as it goes haud-iu-haud with other liuguistic choices, which are dissouaut both iu terms of geure aud iu terms of the series' baseliue stylized dialect register. Iu this paper we show that such bricolage geuerates rich iuterpretive poteutial: from a filmic perspective, the use of techuiques which may befuddle viewer expectatious regardiug the geure cunuiugly piupoiut the processes whereby geueric aud uarrative couveutious are coustructed; from a socioliuguistic perspective, the extreme stylizatiou of the Cypriot Greek dialect may be seeu as performative destabiliziug of domiuaut folk liuguistic coustructs about staudard lauguage aud dialect iu a coutext of dialect leveliug aud emergeut diglossia resolutiou.

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Stylizing stylization: The case of Aigia Fuxia

Tsiplakou

Isabel

2012

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“…1 As has been argued in previous work, dense contact between Standard and Cypriot Greek as well as a host of historical, socio-political, economic, and demographic factors have spurred on currently ongoing processes of leveling of local varieties and the emergence of a pancypriot koine (Terkourafi, 2005;Tsiplakou, 2006Tsiplakou, , 2009aTsiplakou et al, 2006Tsiplakou and Kontogiorgi, 2016), which now stands in a diglossic relationship to Standard Modern Greek. The koine acts as a robust buffer against dedialectalization in virtue of the fact that it is (perceived as) a hybrid system, displaying strong structural influences from Standard Modern Greek; such standard-like structural aspects allow for what Rowe and Grohmann (2013) have aptly termed (co-)overt prestige to accrue to the koine, due to is perceived, if not actual, convergence with the standard variety (Tsiplakou, 2011(Tsiplakou, , 2014b.…”

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Imperfect Acquisition of a Related Variety? Residual Clefting and What It Reveals about (Gradient) Bilectalism

Tsiplakou

2017

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This article explores the concept of gradient bilectalism by capitalizing on insights from recent developments in second language acquisition, particularly the suggestion that aspects of the syntax-discourse interface that are not easily accessible to the learner may lead to fossilization, even at end state. I explore the implications of this suggestion for bilectal grammars by examining the ways in which speakers of Cypriot Greek do syntactic focusing in Standard Greek. The phenomenon is structurally different in the two varieties of Greek examined: clefting is the Cypriot syntactic focusing strategy par excellence while in Standard Greek the relevant strategy is movement of the focused item to an immediately preverbal position. Interestingly, this focusing strategy is largely unattested in the acrolectal or standard-like production of bilectal Greek Cypriot speakers; on the contrary, the preferred strategy for syntactic focusing appears to be clefting, as is indicated by data from spontaneous speech. Quantitative data from a questionnaire survey presented in this article confirm that such "residual clefting" persists even at end state, which in turn suggests imperfect acquisition of the relevant structural aspect of Standard Greek, the second variety of these otherwise bilectal speakers. The data invite an approach couched within the Interface Hypothesis, and the argument is put forward that, being a structure at the interface between syntax and other modules or cognitive domains (semantics, pragmatics, and discourse), focusing in the target variety is vulnerable as regards acquisition.

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“…The Greek-Cypriot dialect is not regarded as a single variety, but rather one that consists of numerous register levels (see Tsiplakou, Papapavlou, Pavlou, & Katsoyannou, 2006) Language, Culture and Curriculum which bear basilectal, mesolectal and acrolectal features of the Greek-Cypriot dialect on a dialectal continuum. Just as the Greek-Cypriot dialect differs from Standard Modern Greek, these register levels also differ from each other in terms of phonology, lexis, morphology and syntax.…”

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Standard Modern Greek and Greek-Cypriot dialect in kindergarten classroom interaction: teachers' and learners' language attitudes and language use

Sophocleous

Wilks

2010

Language, Culture and Curriculum

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This study investigates language use and language attitudes in state kindergarten education in Cyprus. Kindergarten education is the primary setting where GreekCypriots learn to employ the standard variety on a systematic basis. Consequently, the context of kindergarten education is a principal setting for examining language attitudes and language variation. Specifically, this study examines whether teachers' ambiguities regarding language use exist in kindergarten education as in other levels of formal education and whether at the age of kindergarten education children's language attitudes towards the standard and non-standard varieties begin to develop. The data gathered via class observations and teacher interviews suggest that teacher ambiguities do seem to exist in relation to the use of the two varieties in the classroom and children do distinguish between the two language varieties, as they employ these on different speaking occasions in the classroom with their peers and teachers.

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Levelling, koineization and their implications for bidialectism

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Stylizing stylization: The case of Aigia Fuxia

Stylizing stylization: The case of Aigia Fuxia

Imperfect Acquisition of a Related Variety? Residual Clefting and What It Reveals about (Gradient) Bilectalism

Standard Modern Greek and Greek-Cypriot dialect in kindergarten classroom interaction: teachers' and learners' language attitudes and language use

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