Greek dialect use in the mass media in Cyprus

Abstract

Cameron (1995) underlines the role of the media as one of the three major language policy agents in a given speech community. Their decisive function in the definition of the roles of various competing codes in a speech community becomes particularly important in cases of multilingual or multi-dialectal societies such as Cyprus, where the relationship among the three key players, that is, the Cypriot dialect, Standard Modern Greek and English has not been clearly defined yet. It has been argued that the Cypriot dialect is threatened by both SMG and English and, thus, its structure and status are in the process of transformation, facing the menace of marginalization or relegation to very peripheral and confined domains. This article investigates the presence of the Cypriot dialect in the media in an attempt to assess the role of the media in the ongoing change of the (structure and) status of the dialect.

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