Download or read book Greek Language, Italian Landscape written by Manuela Pellegrino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Language, Italian Landscape traces the transformation of language ideologies and practices of Griko, a variety of Modern Greek used in the Italian province of Lecce, and proposes the concept of "the cultural temporality of language" to describe how locals are converting what was once considered a "backward language" into a symbolic resource.