The Russian Language Outside the Nation (Russian Language and Society) - Hardcover

 
9780748668458: The Russian Language Outside the Nation (Russian Language and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0748668454 ISBN 13: 9780748668458
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2014

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The first book to examine Russian as a minority language in different countries

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Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Professor of Russian and Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She works in several fields within Russian language studies: sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, metaphorical studies, language policy, and the nexus between language, ideology and identity.

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Russian Language and SocietySeries Editor: Lara Ryazanova-ClarkeBooks in this series examine the interrelationships between Russian language and society. As language is often a central issue within Russian culture, anthropology, history, politics and sociology, the series provides a forum for scholars across several disciplines to examine these issues and expand the field of Russian Studies.‘Making an important contribution to emerging sociolinguistics of globalisation, this wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection explores political and demographic causes of unprecedented expansion of Russian in the globalised world. This volume offers intriguing insights into legal, social, economic, and sociolinguistic complexities of the ongoing transformation of the Russian linguasphere.’Aneta Pavlenko, Temple UniversityThe first book to examine Russian as a minority language in different countriesThe collapse of the Soviet Union dramatically changed the global distribution of the Russian language. Apart from Russia, it is now spoken in fourteen successor states of the former Soviet Union, while the increased mobility of Russian speakers has expanded russophone communities across the world.Taking a broad sociolinguistic perspective, this book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of Russian in the contemporary world. It examines contexts for shaping Russian speakers’ identities in various locations across the globe, the shifting attitudes towards Russian language outside the metropolis, emerging new global varieties of Russian, and the use of Russian language as soft power in the transnational russophone media. In order to discuss problems posed by the current stage of globalisation of Russian, a number of non-metropolitan spaces are sampled: chapters take the reader to locations which include both the post-Soviet states, specifically Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Belarus, and the countries of the traditional ‘West’ – Italy, the US and Israel.A thought-provoking and engaging book, it is essential reading for advanced students and specialists in Russian and Eastern European Studies, Post-Soviet Studies, Language Studies and Sociolinguistics.Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Russian and Academic Director of the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre at the University of Edinburgh.Cover image: from the project Artconstitution, 2003, Alexander Sigutin. Used with the permission of the artist and S.ART (Petr Vois gallery).Cover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748668454
ISBN 13 
9780748668458
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Herausgeber
Ryazanova-Clarke Lara
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