LINGUIST List 26.4023

Fri Sep 11 2015

Books: French and Russian in Imperial Russia: Volume 2: Offord, Ryazanova-Clarke, Rjeoutski, Argent (eds.)

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Date: 08-Sep-2015
From: Anna Glazier <Anna.Glaziereup.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: French and Russian in Imperial Russia: Volume 2: Offord, Ryazanova-Clarke, Rjeoutski, Argent (eds.)
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Title: French and Russian in Imperial Russia: Volume 2
Subtitle: Language Attitudes and Identity
Series Title: Russian Language and Society
Published: 2015
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
                http://www.euppublishing.com

Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748695539

Editor: Derek Offord
Editor: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Editor: Vladislav Rjeoutski
Editor: Gesine Argent
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748695539 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 75
Abstract:

Explores how knowledge of French helped shape Russian identities and their views on the Russian language

This is the second of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin. Set against the background of the rapid transformation of Russia into a major European power, the two volumes of French and Russian in Imperial Russia consider the functions of multilingualism and the use of French as a prestige language among the elite, as well as the benefits of Franco-Russian bilingualism and the anxieties to which it gave rise.

This second volume, Language Attitudes and Identity, explores the impact of French on Russian language attitudes, especially among the literary community. It examines the ways in which perceptions of Russian francophonie helped to shape social, political and cultural identity as Russia began to seek space of its own in the European cultural landscape. In the process, it investigates approaches to translation, journalistic debate about language, literary representation of devotees of French social practice and fashion, and manifestations of linguistic purism and patriotism.

A comprehensive and original contribution to the multidisciplinary study of language, the two volumes address, from a historical viewpoint, subjects of relevance to sociolinguists (especially bilingualism and multilingualism), social and cultural historians (social and national identity, linguistic and cultural borrowing), Slavists (the relationship of Russian and western culture) and students of the European Enlightenment, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and cultural nationalism.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                            Russian (rus)

Written In: English (eng)

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