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What Can We Conclude?

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This chapter summarizes the findings of the study and discusses the social factors that facilitate the maintenance of Greek. These factors are related to speakers’ identities and domains of use, such as generation, marital status (endogamy), family, friendship, employment, education and religion. The chapter also discusses the role of language attitudes and the media in the maintenance of Greek. Limitations of the current study and directions for future research are addressed in the final section.

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  1. Department of Linguistics and Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Angeliki Alvanoudi

  2. James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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Alvanoudi, A. (2019). What Can We Conclude?. In: Modern Greek in Diaspora. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90899-1_6

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