The Soft Power of the Russian Language
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-24098-5 (ISBN)
Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts.
Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across the former Soviet Union and beyond, the contributors analyze the unifying role of the Russian language for developing transnational connections and show its value in the knowledge economy. They demonstrate that centrifugal developments of Russian and its pluricentricity are grounded in the language and education policies of their host countries, as well as the goals and functions of cultural institutions, such as schools, media, travel agencies, and others created by émigrés for their co-ethnics. This book also reveals the tensions between Russia’s attempts to homogenize the 'Russian world' and the divergence of regional versions of Russian reflecting cultural hybridity of the diaspora.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will prove useful to researchers of Russian and post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, Russian language and culture, linguistics, and immigration studies. Those studying multilingualism and heritage language teaching may also find it interesting.
Arto Mustajoki is Professor Emeritus at Helsinki University, Finland. Ekaterina Protassova is Adjunct Professor in Russian language at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Maria Yelenevskaya is Senior Teaching Fellow at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Part 1. Russian as a communicative tool: lingua franca, intermediator or something else? Chapter 1 The Russian Language away from the Metropolis: Challenges of Pluricentric Development Chapter 2 The History of the Internationalization of Russian Chapter 3 The Democratization of Russian Part 2. The Russian-Language Legacy Chapter 4 Language Policy in Relation to the Russian Language in Georgia before and after Dissolution of the Soviet Union Chapter 5 Russian in Armenia: Between Thriving and Surviving Chapter 6 Russian in Azerbaijan: Changing Practices and Emerging Paradigms Chapter 7 Variability in the Russian Diaspora Speech of Estonia Chapter 8 The Russian Language in Latvia: The Historic Linguistic Situation Chapter 9 The Russian Language of the Lithuanian Republic as Reflected in Mass Media Discourse Chapter 10 The Russian Language in Belarus and Ukraine Chapter 11 The Russian Language in Kazakhstan in the 21st Century Chapter 12 Russian Language in Kyrgyzstan: Status, Functioning and Collisions between Languages Part 3. The Russian-Speaking Diaspora Chapter 13 Russian in France: from the Russian Community to the National Education System Chapter 14 Russian in Germany Chapter 15 Russian and its Speakers in Finland Chapter 16 The Russian Language in Canada Chapter 17 The Russian Dialects Outside Russia: The Situation in South America Chapter 18 Connected by Digital Imagination: Discourses of Belonging and Community Building of Russophone Migrants in the USA and Great Britain Part 4. New Trends in the functioning of the Russian language Chapter 19 Heritage Russian in the US and the New Type of Pluricentricity in the Context of Immigration Chapter 20 Family Language Policy, Russian Language Use, Maintenance and Transmission in Cyprus and Sweden Chapter 21 Russian As A Foreign Language Education in Japanese High Schools: A Multilingual Education Policy on the Margin
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.12.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Contemporary Russia |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-24098-9 / 1032240989 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-24098-5 / 9781032240985 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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