Language on Display
Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2017
232 pages
978-1-4744-2157-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- 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
