The Russian language outside the nation / [electronic resource]
Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara, author.
Ryazanova-Clarke, Larissa,1957-editor.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Russian speakers ended up living outside their homeland. Some remained in the non-Russian former Soviet republics which became independent states, whilst others migrated. This book explores multiple issues connected to the Russian speaker's identity as a member of a linguistic minority in the new world configuration. This topic has received little scholarly attention but it is topical not only for Russia but also for the policy makers and societies of the destination nations.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Notes on contributors -- Cyrillic transliteration system adopted in the book -- Introduction : the Russian language, challenged by globalisation / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke -- Pt. I : Russian and its legal status. International law, minority language rights and Russian(s) in the 'near abroad' / Michael Newcity -- The Russian language in Ukraine : complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building? / Bill Bowring -- Pt. II : Linguistic perceptions and symbolic values. The Russian language in Belarus : language use, speaker identities and metalinguistic discourse / Curt Woolhiser -- What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular beliefs regarding the social roles of the language / Volodymyr Kulyk -- Pt. III : Russian-speaking communities and identity negotiations. Post-Soviet Russian-speaking diaspora in Italy : results of a sociolinguistic survey / Monica Perotto -- Ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation orientations of Russian speakers in Estonia / Martin Ehala and Anastassia Zabrodskaja -- Linguistic performance of Russianness among Russian-Israeli parents : child-raising practices in the immigrant community / Claudia Zbenovich -- Pt. IV : Language contact and the globalisation of Russian. Similarities and differences between American-immigrant Russian of the 1970s and 1980s and post-Soviet Russian in the motherland / David R. Andrews -- Predictors of pluricentricity ; lexical divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian / Aleksandrs Berdicevskis -- Pt. V : Globalisation of Russian as soft power. Russian with an accent : globalisation and the post-Soviet imaginary / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke -- Index.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Russian speakers ended up living outside their homeland. Some remained in the non-Russian former Soviet republics which became independent states, whilst others migrated. This book explores multiple issues connected to the Russian speaker's identity as a member of a linguistic minority in the new world configuration. This topic has received little scholarly attention but it is topical not only for Russia but also for the policy makers and societies of the destination nations.
Russian language