Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953

Michael G. Smith

• Editorial: De Gruyter Mouton
• Año: 2012
• ISBN:
  9783110805581
• Categoría: Filología
• Categoría: Lingüística

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Índice

• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Historical challenges
• Chapter 1. Democracy and language in late imperial Russia
• Chapter 2. Divided speech communities of the Soviet Union
• Part II. Theoretical approaches
• Chapter 3. G.G. Shpet, linguistic structure, and the Eurasian imperative in Soviet language reform
• Chapter 4. N.Ia. Marr, language history, and the Stalin cultural revolution
• Part III. Practical experiments
• Chapter 5. Mass mobilizing for Russian literacy: scripts, grammar and style
• Chapter 6. “A revolution for the east”: Latin alphabets and their polemics
• Part IV. Statist solutions
• Chapter 7. The official campaign for Russian language culture
• Chapter 8. Stalin’s linguistic theories as cultural conquest
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Notes
• Archival sources
• References
• Index