Greek in minoritized contexts

This volume examines constructions of Greekness and Greek-speakerhood in geographical and sociohistorical contexts where Greek speakers are minoritised, and Greek is not hegemonic.

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Matthew John Hadodo is a postdocotral researcher and lecturer at the University of Salzburg's Department of English and American Studies.

Elena Ioannidou is a sociolinguist and an ethnographer and an Associate Professor in Language Education at the Department of Education, University of Cyprus.

Petros Karatsareas is Reader in Multilingualism and Language Contact at the School of Humanities at the University of Westminster.

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Contents

List of Contributors

0. Preface

1. Petros Karatsareas, Matthew John Hadodo, and Elena Ioannidou - Researching Identities, Authenticities, And Institutions in Minoritized Settings: Insights from Diverse Greek-Speaking Communities

Part I: Minoritization against shifting power structures

2. Matthew John Hadodo - From "Turkish Seeds" to "Greeker than the Greeks": Navigating authentic Greek identity with the Istanbul Greek community

3. Elena Ioannidou - Change and continuity among Cypriot Romeika speakers: The use of older forms of Greek across the political border

4. Rexhina Ndoci and Brian Joseph - Ideology and Greek-Albanian bilingualism: on the permeability of language boundaries

Part II: Language practices in transnational migration

5. Petros Karatsareas - *'More Like the Greeks': Linguistic Cleavages and Authenticity in London's Greek Cypriot Diaspora*

6. Anastasia Rothoni, Antonis Konstantinidis, Stavroula Antonopoulou and Dimitris Koutsogiannis - Mapping the translingual repertoires of practices of young Greek new migrants in Australia

7. Yvonne Lam and Evangelia Daskalaki - Essentialist ideologies and the iconicity of Greek as a heritage language in Western Canada

8. Zoe Nikolaidou and Maria Rydell - Linguistic aspirations and migration experiences in Greek-speaking families in Sweden

9. James A. Walker and Stavroula Nikoloudis - 'Greekness' in Melbourne

10. Eleni Skourtou - Afterword

Index