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Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

Hardcover

Series: Russian Language and Society

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1474421563
ISBN13: 9781474421560
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Dec 18 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage, a time when the language question permeated all spheres of social, cultural and political life.
Key topics for debate included the Soviet linguistic legacy, the past and future of Russian, linguistic variation, language policy and linguistic ideologies. This book looks at how these debates featured in literature and illustrates the discussion through six interpretive readings of post-Soviet Russian prose. It analyses both the writers' explicit and implicit responses and in doing opens up new perspectives for sociolinguistic research on metalanguage.

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