Loxándra

Raizis, M. Byron; Iordhanídhou, Marías

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“…Both have demonstrated how IGs tend to view Greece, including Athens, as a rural village in comparison to Istanbul's urbanity. This urban/rural tension is seen in cultural artifacts such as the novel Loxandra by Maria Iordanidu (1963). Örs (2017) also has shown how IG speakers invoke tea consumption and preparation (virtually nonexistent in Greece), fashion, and daily routines as loci of differentiation.…”

Section: Ethnographic Methods and The Enregisterment Of Igmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although Maria evaluated certain aspects of contact‐induced change on IG as negative, Danai negatively viewed SMG using the genitive for historic dative. Referencing the “villagey” quality of SMG pronouns, she extended this quality to SMG speech, engaging in historic IG discourse of Athens being a rural village in opposition to Istanbul being an urban cosmopolitan city (Iordanidu, 1963; Örs, 2017). Furthermore, “villagey” is frequently attributed to stigmatized Greek varieties (Karatsareas, 2018), so IG speakers invert the term's indexical properties when applying it to standard features.…”

Section: Negotiating Mainstream Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hellenes and Romans: Oppositional characterological figures and the enregisterment of Istanbul Greek

Hadodo

2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Language users discursively circulate ideologies of identity, especially in stances taken while assigning social characteristics to enregistered personae. Previous research has demonstrated that with the Istanbul Greek diaspora, speakers use the emic terms of Ellines and Romioi to orient to or away from Mainland Greeks, respectively. In this paper, I discuss how Istanbul Greeks in Turkey relate such ethnonyms to linguistic features and how they rely on enregistered dialectal features to construct their ethnicity as Romioi in opposition to Ellines. These ethnonyms result in personae that are used stylistically, but in turn fractally (re)create differentiation into separate ethnic categories. Such sociolinguistic processes demonstrate how linguistic variation is socially embedded in a minoritized indigenous speech community. Studying variation in concert with ethnonym use shows how speakers add nuanced meaning to established identity categories and create new ones based on their lived experiences.

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Section: Ethnographic Methods and The Enregisterment Of Igmentioning

confidence: 99%