Russian in the 1740s

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AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction1.1 Aim and Purpose of the Investigation1.2 Language and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia1.3 Historical Sociolinguistics?1.4 Chronological Delimitations1.5 Was Post-Petrine Russian in Disarray?1.6. Research Questions1.6.1 Extralinguistic Questions1.6.2 Linguistic Questions:1.7 Outline of the InvestigationChapter 2: Survey of Existing Research2.1 Russian Language from the 1740s as a Field of Study2.2 General Studies of Eighteenth-Century Russian2.3 Sociolinguistically Oriented Studies of Eighteenth-Century Russian2.4 Language and Politics in the 1740s2.5 Assessing the Situation2.6 ConclusionsChapter 3: The Impact of Society on Language3.1 Introductory Remarks3.1.1 Peoples and Languages3.1.2 Social Stratification3.1.3 Politics and Administration3.2 Education and Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Russia3.2.1 Education3.2.2 Literacy3.3 Language Management3.3.1 Examining Language Management in Handwritten Documents from the 1740s3.3.2 The Imperial Academy of Sciences, a Language Management Agency3.3.3 A New Function: The Founding of the Russian Conference3.3.4 The Demise of the Russian Conference3.4 Language Management in the Administration3.4.1 Template for the Imperial Title, 17413.4.2 Template for a Letter of Credit, 17443.5 ConclusionsChapter 4: Available Sources4.1 Electronic Corpora of Eighteenth-Century Texts4.2 Printed Texts4.2.1 Books4.2.2 Newspapers4.2.3 Popular Prints4.3 Archival Material4.3.1 Selection of Sources4.4 Paleographic Characteristics of the Material4.4.1 Developments in Printing during the 1740s4.4.2 Handwritten Documents4.5 The People behind the MaterialChapter 5: Methodological Considerations5.1 Existing Methods5.2 Methodological Renewal5.2.1 The Uniformitarian Principle5.2.2 The Uniformitarian Principle and the Registers of Eighteenth-Century Russian5.2.3 What May Have Influenced the Registers?5.2.4 Register Analysis5.3 Register Analysis of Russian from the 1740sChapter 6: Situational Analysis of Registers6.1 Participants6.1.1 Individuals6.1.2 Institutions6.2 Relationships among Participants6.3 Channel6.3.1 Change of Printed Medium: A Weather Phenomenon in Spain6.3.2 Speech to Writing: Witness Statements6.4 Processing Circumstances6.5 Setting6.6 Communicative Purpose6.7 Topics6.8 ConclusionsChapter 7: Linguistic Analysis7.1 Autographs7.1.1 Mate Filipp Lanikin's Receipt7.1.2 Mikhail Turchenikov's Letter and Its Cultural Contexta) The Reportb) The Letters7.2 The Language of Regional Administration7.3 The Language of Diplomacy7.3.1 The Treaty on Subsidies7.3.2 Letters to the Royal Families7.3.3 A Letter by A. I. Rumiantsev7.4 The Life of Printed Texts7.4.1 Printing and Obsolete Characters7.4.2 The Development of Printed Texts7.4.3 Parallel Editions: Field-Marshal de Lacy's Reports from the FrontChapter 8: Functional Analysis8.1 Tradition8.2 Education8.3 Social Identity8.4 Efficiency of Administration8.5 Informativity8.6 ConclusionChapter 9: General Conclusions9.1 Territorial Expansion and the Need for Trained Specialists9.2 Education and Literacy9.3 Organized Language Management9.4 Functional Spheres of Russian in the 1740s9.5 PerspectivesBibliography
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