Attitudes to a Prestigious Variety and Language Change (the case of a Southern Russian Vernacular)
Attitudes to a Prestigious Variety and Language Change (the case of a Southern Russian Vernacular)

Summary/Abstract: This paper introduces a research carried out in the field of diachronic sociolinguistics. The research deals with the history of the Greek speech communities of the Northern Azov sea coast, especially that of the port-town Taganrog. The outcome of the Greek-Russian language contact in the area since the late 18th century to approximately early 20th century is in focus. The major aim of the research is to reconstruct the development of linguistic situation in Taganrog from the late 18th to the early 20th century focusing on the interaction between the Greek and Russian communities. The social functions of the languages in question are compared, and the study into the Greek-Russian language contact and its effect on local Russian is carried out.

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