Language on display : writers, fiction and linguistic culture in post-Soviet Russia /
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 pros...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Russian |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2018]
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| Series: | Russian language and society.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1tqx9mt |
Table of 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.