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Author Lunde, Ingunn, 1969- author.

Title Language on display : writers, fiction and linguistic culture in post-Soviet Russia / Ingunn Lunde
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : illustration
Series Russian language and society series
Russian language and society.
Contents pt. I Post-Soviet Language Culture -- 1. Newspeak, Counterspeak and Linguistic Memory -- 2. Challenging the Standard -- pt. II Language, Writers and Fiction -- 3. Languages and Styles of Post-Soviet Russian Prose -- 4. The Literary Norm -- pt. III Writers on Language: Telling and Showing -- 5. Pisateli o iazyke: Writers' Reflections on Language -- 6. Abanamat: Reactions to the Ban on Profanity in Art -- pt. IV Language on Display -- 7. Confronting Linguistic Legacies: Evgenii Popov and Vladimir Sorokin -- 8. Language, Time and Linguistic Dystopia: Tat'iana Tolstaia and Evgenii Vodolazkin -- 9. Language Ideologies and Society: Valerii Votrin and Mikhail Gigolashvili
Summary Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage. This book looks at how these debates featured in literature and illustrates the discussion through six interpretive readings of post-Soviet Russian prose
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-218) and index
Notes Text in English and Russian
Print version record
SUBJECT Die Stadt ohne Juden gnd
Subject Linguistic change -- Russia (Federation)
Language and culture -- Russia (Federation)
Linguistics -- Russia (Federation)
Sociolinguistics -- Russia (Federation)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Language and culture
Linguistic change
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Literatur
Sprache Motiv
Sprachwandel
Soziolinguistik
Sprache
Sprachpflege
Kultur
Russia (Federation)
Russland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474421577
1474421571
9781474444842
1474444849
Other Titles Writers, fiction and linguistic culture in post-Soviet Russia