The Soft Power of the Russian Language (eBook, PDF)

Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies
Redaktion: Mustajoki, Arto; Yelenevskaya, Maria; Protassova, Ekaterina

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429592294
• Artikelnr.: 56961782

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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