Public Debate in Russia : : Matters of (Dis)order /

Public Debate in Russia : : Matters of (Dis)order / / Nikolai Vakhtin, Boris Firsov.

An interdisciplinary study of Russian public debate past and present Can we trace attempts taken in Russian history to overcome the inability to speak publicly? How do different social groups in modern Russia cope with situations when they have to participate in a public discussion and arrive at a c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Vakhtin, Nikolai,
Firsov, Boris,
MitwirkendeR:
Clarke, Lara,
Fedorova, Kapitolina,
Firsov, Boris,
Gladarev, Boris,
Kalugin, Dmitrii,
Kasatkina, Alexandra,
Kelly, Catriona,
Kharkhordin, Oleg,
Krongauz, Maksim,
Lerner, Julia,
Tissier, Michel,
Vakhtin, Nikolai,
V’iugin, Valerii,
Zbenovich, Claudia,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Russian Language and Society : RLS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations 2 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • 1. The Discourse of Argumentation in Totalitarian Language and Post-Soviet Communication Failures
  • 2. Russian and Newspeak: Between Myth and Reality
  • 3. ‘A Society that Speaks Concordantly’, or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia
  • 4. Legal Literature ‘for the People’ and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century)
  • 5. ‘How to Write to the Newspaper’: Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language
  • 6. Between the Street and the Kitchen: The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema
  • 7. Was Official Discourse Hegemonic?
  • 8. Attempts to Overcome ‘Public Aphasia’: A Study of Public Discussions in Russia at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
  • 9. Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning
  • 10. ‘Distances of Vast Dimensions . . .’: Official versus Public Language (Material from Meetings of the Organising Committees of Mass Events, January–February 2012)
  • 11. Insides Made Public: Talking Publicly about the Personal in Post-Soviet Media Culture (The Case of The Fashion Verdict)
  • 12. Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counterdiscourse: Oleg Kozyrev’s ‘Rulitiki’ Internet Videos
  • 13. The Past and Future of Russian Public Language
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index

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