LUDMILA FERM teaches Russian, University of Uppsala, SwedenALEXANDER KROUGLOV is a member of the School of Modern Languages, University of Otago, New ZealandSEPPO LALLUKKA works at the Institute for Russian and East European Studies, Helsinki, FinlandV.M. MOKIENKO Professor, University of Griefswald, GermanyWOLF MOSKOVICH Director of the Institute of History, Philosophy and Regional Studies, Hebrew University, JerusalemBORIS NORMAN Professor, Belorussian State University, MinskLARA RYAZANOVA-CLARKE Lecturer in Russian, University of Edinburgh, Scotland NADIA STANGÉ-ZIROVOVA Maître de Conférences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumWULFHILD ZIEL works at the Institute fur Slavistik, University of Leipzig, Germany

• General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Preface Introduction; J.A.Dunn The Transformation of Russian from a Language of the Soviet Type to a Language of the Western Type; J.A.Dunn The Development of the Political Metaphor in the Post-Soviet Period; L.Ferm Sociolinguistic Transformations in Rapidly Changing Societies: Russia and Ukraine; A.Krouglov Below the Republican Level: Political Origins and Social Status of the Literary Komi-Permiak Language; S.Lallukka The Russian Language 'On the Brink': The Linguistic Situation in Present-Day Russia; V.M.Mokienko The Terminology of Modern Russian: Ultranationalism and Antisemitism; W.Moskovich Reality and Language Games in Contemporary Russian; B.Norman Elements of Persuasion in the Language of Russian Television Advertising; L.Ryazanova-Clarke French Loan-Words in the Ideolects of Russian Immigrants in Francophone Belgium; N.Stangé-Zhirovova The Relationship Between Language and Society in the Writings of Aleksandr Potebnja; W.Ziel Index of Subjects and Names Index of Words and Phrases