♰ GEORGE TZAVARAS

George Tzavaras graduated from the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, before pursuing postgraduate studies in Linguistics at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. In 1970, he received an MA in Applied Linguistics, followed by an MPhil in Linguistics in 1976. In 1979, he was appointed permanent teacher of foreign languages at the Department of English Language and Literature (formerly Department of English Studies), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he taught Linguistics and Translation courses until his retirement in 2006-07. He was well known for the paper “Why Albanian-Greeks are not Albanians: Language shift in Attika and Biotia” (1977), published in the volume Language, Ethnicity, and Intergroup Relations. This work, co-authored with the internationally renowned sociolinguist Peter Trudgill, remains a significant contribution to the study of language shift and ethnic identity.