The Russian Language Outside the Nation
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:17th Mar '14
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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.
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 University *
The volume presents many different aspects of Russian outside the nation. All the chapters present high quality research and the introduction connects them smoothly. -- Liubov Baladzhaeva, University of Haifa * Linguist List *
Makes a major contribution to the sociolinguistics of Russian, the study of language diasporas, and the sociolinguistics of globalization. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke has assembled an impressive group of authors who apply diverse sociolinguistic approaches, including frameworks of linguistic vitality, conversational analysis, language policy, language in contact, and sociolinguistic analysis of language regimes, to present a comprehensive study of Russian as the language of the 'accidental diaspora'. An invaluable resource to anyone interested in the sociolinguistics of global Russian. -- Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University * Slavic and East European Journal *
Thus, this is a timely, welcome first volume on the current position of Russian outside Russia. The work opens with a thought-provoking introduction [and] should be of interest to those concerned with language, sociolinguistics, and post-Soviet studies. Of course, there is so much more that waits to be explored in this exciting field of Russian and globalization. Hopefully, many new volumes will be forthcoming. -- Isabelle Kreindler, University of Haifa * Slavic Review *
ISBN: 9780748668458
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 587g
304 pages