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Part I: Greek in a multilingual world PETER TRUDGILL The Ausbau sociolinguistics of Greek as a minority and majority language ......................................................23 JANET HOLMES, MARY ROBERTS, MARIA VERIVAKI AND 'ANAHINA'AIPOLO Language maintenance and shift in three New Zealand speech communities ............................................41 ROULA TSOKALIDOU Women on the cusp - a case of bilingual women ................................... 73 Part II: Register variation with a focus on diglossia MARGARET ALEXIOU D iglossia in G reece.................................................................................89 DIMITRIS TZIOVAS Residual orality and belated textuality in Greek literature and culture ............................................................................. 119 Part III: Politeness MARIA SIFIANOU On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece .........................................................................137 THEODOSSIA PAVLIDOU Cooperation and the choice of linguistic means: some evidence from the use of the subjunctive in Modem Greek ....... 161 ANGELIQUE PETRITS Addressing in Modem Greek: evidence from a case study in the Athens central market ................................................................. 199 Part IV: Speaker and context variation DEBORAH TANNEN AND CHRISTINA KAKAVA Power and solidarity in Modem Greek conversation: disagreeing to agree ........................................ ..................... 225 MARIANTHI MAKRI-TSILIPAKOU Interruption revisited: affiliative vs. disaffiliative intervention ............ 253 ANNA IORDANIDOU AND JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS Youth slang in Modem Greek .............................................................285 ALEXANDRA GEORGAKOPOULOU Self-presentation and interactional alliances in e-mail discourse: the style- and code-switches of Greek messages ................303 Part V: Ethnographic approaches MICHAEL HERZFELD Silence, submission and subversion: toward a poetics of womanhood ........................................ ..................... 335 RENEE HIRSCHON Greek adults' verbal play, or, how to train for caution .........................359 Bibliography ........................................................................................ 383 List of contributors ...............................................................................397 Index .....................................................................................................399