Politics and the theory of language in the USSR, 1917-1938
Subtitle: the birth of sociological linguistics
By: edited by Craig Brandist and Katya Chown.
Contributors: Brandist, Craig, 1963-; Chown, Katya.
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843318408; 9780857289483
Subjects: Sociolinguistics -- Soviet Union -- History; Linguistics -- Soviet Union -- Philosophy -- History; Linguistics -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Linguistics -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Linguists -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Russian language -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Russian language -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Language policy -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Craig Brandist; title: Soviet linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s and the scholarly heritage / Vladimir Alpatov; title: "Sociology" in Soviet linguistics of the 1920-30s : Shor, Polivanov, and Voloshinov / Mika Lähteenmäki; title: Theoretical insights and ideological pressures in early Soviet linguistics : the cases of Lev Iakubinskii and Boris Larin / Victoria Gulida; title: Early Soviet linguistics and Mikhail Bakhtin's essays on the novel of the 1930s / Craig Brandist and Mika Lähteenmäki; title: Language as a battlefield : the rhetoric of class struggle in linguistic debates of the first five-year plan period : the case of E.D. Polivanov vs. G.K. Danilov / Kapitolina Fedorova; title: The tenacity of forms : language, nation, Stalin / Michael G. Smith; title: The word as culture : Grigorii Vinokur's applied language science / Vladislava Reznik; title: Language ideology and the evolution of kulʹtura iazyka ("speech culture") in Soviet Russia / Michael S. Gorham; title: Psychology, linguistics, and the rise of applied social science in the USSR : Isaak Shpilʹreĭn's The language of the Red Army soldier / Craig Brandist; title: Appendix 1: Introduction to japhetidology : theses / Ivan Meshchaninov ; translated and with an introduction by Craig Brandist; title: Appendix 2: Glossary of names / Craig Brandist and Katya Chown.