The Russian Language Outside the Nation: Speakers and Identities
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Abstract
Taking a broad sociolinguistic perspective, the book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of the Russian language in the contemporary world. It examines the contexts within which Russian speakers’ identities are being shaped in various locations across the globe, the shifting attitudes towards the Russian language outside the metropolis, the emerging new varieties of Russian, and the use of the Russian language as soft power in the transnational russophone media. In order to discuss problems posed by the current stage of glob ... More
Taking a broad sociolinguistic perspective, the book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of the Russian language in the contemporary world. It examines the contexts within which Russian speakers’ identities are being shaped in various locations across the globe, the shifting attitudes towards the Russian language outside the metropolis, the emerging new varieties of Russian, and the use of the Russian language as soft power in the transnational russophone media. In order to discuss problems posed by the current stage of globalisation of Russian, a number of non-metropolitan spaces are sampled: chapters take the reader to locations which include both the post-Soviet states, namely Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Belarus, and the countries of the traditional; West’ - Italy, the US, and Israel.
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics,
globalisation,
Russian language and society identity,
post-Soviet,
diaspora,
migration,
language policy,
language contact,
soft power,
bilingualism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748668458 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2015 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748668458.001.0001 |
