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The Russian language outside the nation / edited by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 292 pages).
Additional Creators
Ryazanova-Clarke, Larissa, 1957-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Notes on contributors -- Cyrillic transliteration system adopted in the book -- Introduction : the Russian language, challenged by globalisation / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke -- pt. I : Russian and its legal status. International law, minority language rights and Russian(s) in the 'near abroad' / Michael Newcity -- The Russian language in Ukraine : complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building? / Bill Bowring -- pt. II : Linguistic perceptions and symbolic values. The Russian language in Belarus : language use, speaker identities and metalinguistic discourse / Curt Woolhiser -- What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular beliefs regarding the social roles of the language / Volodymyr Kulyk -- pt. III : Russian-speaking communities and identity negotiations. Post-Soviet Russian-speaking diaspora in Italy : results of a sociolinguistic survey / Monica Perotto -- Ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation orientations of Russian speakers in Estonia / Martin Ehala and Anastassia Zabrodskaja -- Linguistic performance of Russianness among Russian-Israeli parents : child-raising practices in the immigrant community / Claudia Zbenovich -- pt. IV : Language contact and the globalisation of Russian. Similarities and differences between American-immigrant Russian of the 1970s and 1980s and post-Soviet Russian in the motherland / David R. Andrews -- Predictors of pluricentricity ; lexical divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian / Aleksandrs Berdicevskis -- pt. V : Globalisation of Russian as soft power. Russian with an accent : globalisation and the post-Soviet imaginary / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke -- Index.
Summary
The first book to examine Russian as a minority language in different countries. The 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. Key Features Provides a sociolinguistic perspective on the position of the Russian language throughout the world Discusses the globalisation of Russian in metropolitan and non-metropolitan spaces Contributes to the understanding of developments in Russian as it engages with different new social, political, geographical, legal and cultural environments
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ISBN
9780748668465 (electronic bk.)
0748668462 (electronic bk.)
1306819709 (ebk)
9781306819701 (ebk)
9780748697106
0748697101
9780748668458
0748668454
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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