Entextualizing vernacular forms in a Maniat village

Language ideology as a field of inquiry (Woolard et al. 1998: 3) involves, among others, the critical analysis inequalities manifest in discursive and textual practices. This paper deals with folklore practices language ideologies related to project for collection publication oral traditions 1930s Greece. The institutionalization this relied heavily on G.Chatzidakis (1890-1923), Professor Linguistics N.G. Politis (1852-1921), Comparative Mythology at University Athens whose works arguably created an orthodox model text-making. Instead, though, focusing metadiscourse or these two central figures project, I will turn their localization by philologist engaged vernacular forms Maniat village (Southern Peloponnese). local seeks uncover features orthopraxy (Blommaert 2003), that is adaptations which although guided surface level, can be acts identity, expressing resistance hegemonic ideologies, revealing inequality distribution resources gate-keeping restrictions.The draws personal archives I. Strilakos from period 1930-35, include three notebooks manuscript lament verbal art. approach based examination Strilakos’ entextualization practices, term refers way ‘shape’ given extracted stretches discourse (see Bauman Briggs 1990). systematic sheds light mediated ways ‘authentic’ voices become indexes nationally subsumed regional identities.