Ο Ψυχάρης και το έργο του

The essay organizes its subject's work into linguistic, sociopolitical, and literary strands while focusing on the linguistic research and advocacy for a standardized vernacular. It recounts the scholar's foreign training and philological studies in phonetics and historical grammar, shows how a travelogue and theoretical writings argued for demotic speech as a legitimate national idiom, and outlines proposals for a common, regularized written language. The account also details opposition from conservative educators, church and literary circles and describes public controversies sparked by a vernacular translation of sacred texts that intensified the language debate.