Language Attitudes, Shift and the Ethnolinguistic Vitality of the Greek Orthodox Community in Istanbul
Author: Markos Komondouros & Lisa McEntee-Atalianis
Publisher/Publication: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Volume/Issue: 28(5)
DOI/ISBN: 10.2167/jmmd483.1
The writers focus on a gap in sociolinguistic research examining how the Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul is maintained, albeit severely reduced in size. Having as input completed questionaires, the researchers utilize sociolinguistic and sociopsychological parameters and the interplay of language and identity, to examine the current status of Greek-Orthodox Christians in the community and discuss whether the Greek identity underpins its survival and how it impacts on the ethnolinguistic vitality, of the tightly knit community.
