Conference Information

Full Title:	Ethnicity, Language and Culture in a Post-Soviet City

Location:	Berlin, Germany
Start Date:	22-Aug-2012 - 24-Aug-2012
Contact:	Anastassia Zabrodskaja
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Meeting URL:	http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/
Meeting Description:	The last decade has witnessed a rise in scholarly interest towards the post-Soviet language situation. The agenda remains being dominated by research in language policy and macro-sociolinguistics (Korth 2005, Hogan-Brun et al. 2008) as well as overall descriptions of the status change of Russian (Pavlenko 2008a, 2008b). Under post-Soviet conditions one of the most topical sociolinguistic dilemmas covers variety of issues related to changing language hierarchies (Russian versus titular languages). Numerous manifestations of this radical turn include top-down initiatives of the so called nationalizing states (including the legislative measures) as well as shift in individual linguistic behaviour and cultural orientations (in the everyday life, in career building, educational choices, marriage preferences, etc.). Big cities, especially capital cities, provide a very good site for exploring these changes, with their thick communicative environment; variety of cultural products produced and consumed; rapidly changing public spaces; visualization of ‘national revival’ measures embodied in changes in toponymy, re-symbolization of city space, appearance of new cultural markers, etc. In addition, population of many cities of the New Independent States (NIS) has undergone serious ethno-cultural transformation after the break-up of the USSR, starting with massive outflow of the so called Russian-speakers (ethnic Russians and other non-titular Russophones) during the 1990s, and ending with influx of transnational and/or internal rural migrants during the current decade.
Linguistic Subfield:	Sociolinguistics
LL Issue:	23.208

This is a session of the following meeting: Sociolinguistics Symposium 19

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