Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia Contributor(s): Lunde, Ingunn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474452299 ISBN-13: 9781474452298 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - Political Science | Public Policy - Cultural Policy |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
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Publisher Description: 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, cultural and political life. Key topics for debate included the Soviet linguistic legacy, the past and future of Russian, linguistic variation, language policy and linguistic ideologies. This book looks at how these debates featured in literature and illustrates the discussion through six interpretive readings of post-Soviet Russian prose. It analyses both the writers' explicit and implicit responses and in doing opens up new perspectives for sociolinguistic research on metalanguage. Spanning a number of theoretical fields including language variation, language policy and literary stylistics, Ingunn Lunde provides a coherent way of triangulating these fields by the introduction of the concept of performative metalanguage. The book also offers insight into the role of writers in the broader social and political context of language culture in contemporary Russia and into the various ways in which the linguistic and aesthetic practices of literary art can engage in questions related to the negotiation of linguistic norms. |