The Russian language in the twentieth century
By: Bernard Comrie, Gerald Stone, Maria Polinsky.
Contributors: Stone, Gerald.; Polinsky, Maria.; Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Russian language -- Social aspects.; Russian language -- History -- 1917-; Russian language -- Usage.
Other titles: Russian language in the 20th century
Description: Bernard Comrie and Gerald Stone's The Russian Language Since the Revolution (OUP, 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid-1980s.

They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing status of women, modes of address, speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes in all these areas have been substantial, and explore the extent to which the standard language, as portrayed in dictionaries and grammars, coincides with the actual usage - both spoken and written - of educated Russians.

The book will be of interest not only to students of Russian but more generally to sociolinguists and those with an interest in language change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-340) and indexes.
Rev. and expanded ed. of: The Russian language since the revolution. 1978.