Resumen de Sociolinguistics and Modern Greek: past, current, and future directions

Christina Kakava

• This article has two goals: (a) to provide an overview ofthe sociolinguistic research that has been done on Modern Greek and (b) to delineate some future directions. Using a distinction made by Fasold (1984, 1990), it covers topics that fall into two major categories: the sociolinguistics of society (macrosociolinguistics) and the sociolinguistics of language (microsociolinguistics). In the first category, issues such äs diglossia, language planning and standardization, language maintenance andshift, andattitudes toward minority languages are covered. In the second category, quantitative and qualitative research is examined, äs it is informed by the approaches taken in regional and social Variation, pragmatics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and, recently, critical discourse analysis.