The Russian language outside the nation. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke.
• Editors: Ryazanova-Clarke, Larissa, 1957-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages)
• Subjects: 491.77; Russian language -- Former Soviet republics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General; Russian language; Russisch; Ausland; Historical & comparative linguistics; Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748668465; 0748668462; 1306819709; 9781306819701; 9780748697106; 0748697101
• Related ISBNs: 9780748668458; 0748668454
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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