Ingunn Lunde

Language on Display (eBook, PDF)

Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421577
• Artikelnr.: 72422312

Autorenporträt

Ingunn Lunde is Professor of Russian in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen.

Inhaltsangabe

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 (2014)
Part IV. Language on display
Chapter 7. Confronting linguistic legacies: Evgenii Popov and Vladimir
Sorokin
Chapter 8. Language, time and linguistic dystopia: Tatiana Tolstaia and
Evgenii Vodolazkin
Chapter 9. Language ideologies and society: Valerii Votrin and Mikhail
Gigolashvili
Conclusion: Towards a theory of performative metalanguage
References
Index