Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

Ingunn Lunde

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage. This book looks at how these debates featured in literature and illustrates the discussion through six interpretive readings of post-Soviet Russian prose.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Note on Transliteration and Translations
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Introduction: Sociolinguistic Change and the Response of Literature
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Part I - Post-Soviet Language Culture
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1 - Newspeak, Counterspeak and Linguistic Memory
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2 - Challenging the Standard
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Part II - Language, Writers and Fiction
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3 - Languages and Styles of Post-Soviet Russian Prose
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4 - The Literary Norm
pp 59-66
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Part III - Writers on Language: Telling and Showing
pp 67-68
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5 - Pisateli o iazyke: Writers’ Reflections on Language
pp 69-83
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6 - Abanamat: Reactions to the Ban on Profanity in Art
pp 84-104
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Part IV - Language on Display
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7 - Confronting Linguistic Legacies: Evgenii Popov and Vladimir Sorokin
pp 107-136
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8 - Language, Time and Linguistic Dystopia: Tat’iana Tolstaia and Evgenii Vodolazkin
pp 137-166
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9 - Language Ideologies and Society: Valerii Votrin and Mikhail Gigolashvili
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Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Performative Metalanguage
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References
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Note on Transliteration and Translations
pp ix-x

Introduction: Sociolinguistic Change and the Response of Literature
pp 1-14

Part I - Post-Soviet Language Culture
pp 15-16

1 - Newspeak, Counterspeak and Linguistic Memory
pp 17-28

2 - Challenging the Standard
pp 29-42

Part II - Language, Writers and Fiction
pp 43-44

3 - Languages and Styles of Post-Soviet Russian Prose
pp 45-58

4 - The Literary Norm
pp 59-66

Part III - Writers on Language: Telling and Showing
pp 67-68

5 - Pisateli o iazyke: Writers’ Reflections on Language
pp 69-83

6 - Abanamat: Reactions to the Ban on Profanity in Art
pp 84-104

Part IV - Language on Display
pp 105-106

7 - Confronting Linguistic Legacies: Evgenii Popov and Vladimir Sorokin
pp 107-136

8 - Language, Time and Linguistic Dystopia: Tat’iana Tolstaia and Evgenii Vodolazkin
pp 137-166

9 - Language Ideologies and Society: Valerii Votrin and Mikhail Gigolashvili
pp 167-194

Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Performative Metalanguage
pp 195-203

References
pp 204-218

Index
pp 219-222

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