The Russian Language Outside the Nation

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Making an important contribution to emerging sociolinguistics of globalisation, this wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection explores political and demographic causes of unprecedented expansion of Russian in the globalised world. This volume offers intriguing insights into legal, social, economic, and sociolinguistic complexities of the ongoing transformation of the Russian linguasphere. * Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University * The volume presents many different aspects of Russian outside the nation. All the chapters present high quality research and the introduction connects them smoothly. -- Liubov Baladzhaeva, University of Haifa * Linguist List * Makes a major contribution to the sociolinguistics of Russian, the study of language diasporas, and the sociolinguistics of globalization. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke has assembled an impressive group of authors who apply diverse sociolinguistic approaches, including frameworks of linguistic vitality, conversational analysis, language policy, language in contact, and sociolinguistic analysis of language regimes, to present a comprehensive study of Russian as the language of the 'accidental diaspora'. An invaluable resource to anyone interested in the sociolinguistics of global Russian. -- Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University * Slavic and East European Journal * Thus, this is a timely, welcome first volume on the current position of Russian outside Russia. The work opens with a thought-provoking introduction [and] should be of interest to those concerned with language, sociolinguistics, and post-Soviet studies. Of course, there is so much more that waits to be explored in this exciting field of Russian and globalization. Hopefully, many new volumes will be forthcoming. -- Isabelle Kreindler, University of Haifa * Slavic Review *