After Newspeak : : Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin / / Michael S. Gorham.
In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. Gorham begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by lan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translations
- Introduction: Ideologies, Economies, and Technologies of Language
- 1. The Soviet Legacy: From Political to Cultural Correctness
- 2. Glasnost Unleashed: Language Ideologies in the Gorbachev Revolution
- 3. Economies of Profanity: Free Speech and Varieties of Language Degradation
- 4. In Defense of the National Tongue: Guardians, Legislators, and Monitors of the Norm
- 5. Taking the Offensive: Language Culture and Policy under Putin
- 6. “Cyber Curtain” or Glasnost 2.0? Strategies for Web-based Communication in the New Media Age
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Sayings and Proverbs about Language
- Works Cited
- Index