Language on Display

Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

AvIngunn Lunde

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Russian Language and Society
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474452298

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Ingunn Lunde is Professor of Russian in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen.

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Lunde’s study deserves a wider audience than Slavists alone. Her groundbreaking interdisciplinary methodology, as well as the compelling argument about performative metalanguage, could inspire new (comparative) perspectives on other cultural and linguistic contexts.

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AcknowledgementsNote on transliteration and translationsIntroduction: sociolinguistic change and the response of literature Part I. Post-Soviet language cultureChapter 1. Newspeak, counterspeak and linguistic memory Chapter 2. Challenging the standard Part II. Language, writers and fictionChapter 3. Languages and styles of post-Soviet Russian prose Chapter 4. The literary normPart III. Writers on language: telling and showingChapter 5. Pisateli o iazyke: writers’ reflections on language Chapter 6. Abanamat: reactions to the ban on profanity in art (2014)Part IV. Language on displayChapter 7. Confronting linguistic legacies: Evgenii Popov and Vladimir Sorokin Chapter 8. Language, time and linguistic dystopia: Tatiana Tolstaia and Evgenii Vodolazkin Chapter 9. Language ideologies and society: Valerii Votrin and Mikhail Gigolashvili Conclusion: Towards a theory of performative metalanguage ReferencesIndex