Language on Display : : Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia / / Ingunn Lunde.

How did Russian writers respond to linguistic debate in the post-Soviet period?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, cultur...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Russian Language and Society : RLS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration and Translations
  • Introduction: Sociolinguistic Change and the Response of Literature
  • Part I. Post-Soviet Language Culture
  • Chapter 1. Newspeak, Counterspeak and Linguistic Memory
  • CHAPTER 2. Challenging the Standard
  • Part II. Language, Writers and Fiction
  • CHAPTER 3. Languages and Styles of Post-Soviet Russian Prose
  • CHAPTER 4. The Literary Norm
  • Part III. Writers on Language: Telling and Showing
  • CHAPTER 5. Pisateli o iazyke Writers’ Reflections on Language
  • CHAPTER 6. Abanamat Reactions to the Ban on Profanity in Art
  • Part IV. Language on Display
  • CHAPTER 7. Confronting Linguistic Legacies
  • CHAPTER 8. Language, Time and Linguistic Dystopia
  • CHAPTER 9. Language Ideologies and Society
  • Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Performative Metalanguage
  • References
  • Index