About the Author:
Peter Mackridge is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, where he taught modern Greek language, literature, and culture from 1981, and Visiting Professor of Modern Greek at King's College London. He is the author of The Modern Greek Language (OUP 1985), and co-author of Greek: a Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 1997)) and Greek: an Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 2004) all of which have been published in Greek.
Review:
Review from previous edition: "There can be little doubt that this work is a major contribution to the cultural history of Greece. Peter Mackridge has written a book that is authoritative, hugely informative, an inexhaustible source of useful detail and sound judgement, that makes complete and
fair use of all available literature on an important and controversial subject. For all this we should be grateful."
--Paschalis M. Kitromilides 19/02/2010
"This book provides the first authoritative, nuanced, and analytical account of the notorious language question in modern Greece. Drawing copiously on original sources that have often been overlooked, even by specialists, Mackridge coherently and convincingly explains why the 'correct' form of
their national language mattered so much to Greek-speakers for more than two centuries. In doing so he also argues powerfully for the role of language to be better studied as part of the global phenomenon of nation-formation."
--Roderick Beaton 22/09/2008
"Modern Greek, a more extraordinary language even than English, reaches back to Homer, Sophocles, Plato, and Sappho. For Greeks, the demotic language of today is part of a three-thousand-year continuum that buoys their sense of pride and identity. 'What a joy it is to fashion our language!'
says Kazantzakis. Peter Mackridge's incisive examination shows why."
--Peter Bien 22/09/2008
"Despite its methodological foundation in linguistics and social sciences, the study has a great scholarly accomplishment that is basically historical...Peter Mackridge's book should be read by all students in all the social sciences."
--Anna Frangoudaki, The Athens Review of Books 12/03/2010
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