Life cycle of Greko. In memoriam of Domenico Nucera – Mimmo Nucera “Milinari”

Karolina Gortych-Michalak

doi:10.32798/zl.1085

Published: 2024-12-18

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2024)

Life cycle of Greko. In memoriam of Domenico Nucera – Mimmo Nucera “Milinari”

Karolina Gortych-Michalak

Zeszyty Łużyckie

Section: Varia

https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1085

Abstract

The text has been written in honour of the memory of Domenico Nucera of Galliciano, who was known as Milinari (the miller). Milinari was an extraordinary figure and at the same time a crucial factor for the preservation and revitalization of the Greko language and culture. His life reflects the plight of many members in the Greco community in Greko-speaking Calabria, Italy. Although he was not an official activist, he collaborated with all organizations and groups whose goal has been preservation and revitalisation of the Greco heritage in South Calabria. His recent activities were connected to the summer school of Grekolanguage and culture and its 8^thedition, which took place in Bova Marina on August 1–7, 2022, was dedicated to his memory.

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Research work financed from the funds for science granted of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Poland for the implementation of an international project co-financed under contract No. 4089/H2020/2018/2 in the years 2018–2023 and COLING project on Minority Languages, Major Opportunities. Collaborative Research, Community Engagement and Innovative Educational Tools, realized under the Maria Skłodowska–Curie EU grant agreement 778384.

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Italiot Greek, Calabrian Greek, Greko language, Greko Community, revitalisation

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Gortych-Michalak, K. (2024). Life cycle of Greko. In memoriam of Domenico Nucera – Mimmo Nucera “Milinari”. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 60(1), 139–145. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1085

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Karolina Gortych-Michalak

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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Department of Unique Languages and Literatures Poland

Bio Statement:

Karolina Gortych–Michalak, Modern Greek researcher. Her PhD Thesis was devoted to the political rhetoric of 20th-century Greece and her Post-Doc The-sis to Greek-Polish legal translation. In the last decade, she was a participant of a number of research projects concerning the parameterization of legilinguistic translatology (Polish National Science Center) and minorized languages, especially the Greco language in Calabria (MSCA). She independently managed a project in which she examined the distance between Modern Greek and the Greko and Griko languages (Polish National Science Center). Her current work focuses on sociolinguistic research and research within the frames of anthropological and cultural linguistics; in her current research, she makes frequent use of linguistic landscape as a tool. She works at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she leads the Department of Unique Languages and Literatures.