The soft power of the Russian language : pluricentricity, politics and policies / edited by Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova and Maria Yelenevskaya.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mustajoki, Arto S. (Arto Samuel), 1948- editor.
• Protasova, E. I︠U︡., editor.
• Yelenevskaya, Maria N., editor.

Series:

• Studies in contemporary Russia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Russian language--Former Soviet republics.
• Russian language--Foreign countries.
• Russian language.
• Foreign countries.
• Soviet Union--Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

xvi, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Contents:

• Part 1. Russian as a communicative tool: Lingua franca, intermediator or something else?:
• 1. The Russian language away from metropolis: challenges of pluricentric development / Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova, Maria Yelenevskaya
• 2. The history of the internationalization of Russian / Vladimir M. Alpatov
• 3. The democratization of Russian / Arto Mustajoki - Part 2. The Russian-language legacy: 4. Language policy in relation to the Russian language in Georgia before and after dissolution of the Soviet Union / Kakha Gabunia, Ketevan Gochitashvili
• 5. Russian in Armenia: between thriving and surviving / Suren T. Zolyan, Karen S. Hakobyan
• 6. Russian in Azerbaijan: changing practices and emerging paradigms / Jala Garibova
• 7. Variability in the Russian diaspora speech of Estonia / Jelisaveta Kostandi, Irina Külmoja, Oksana Palikova
• 8. The Russian language in Latvia: the historic linguistic situation / Pāvels Jurs, Alīda Samuseviča
• 9. The Russian language of the Lithuanian Republic as reflected in mass media discourse / Birute Sinochkina
• 10. The Russian language in Belarus and Ukraine / Jan Patrick Zeller, Dmitri Sitchinava
• 11. The Russian language in Kazakhstan in the 21st Century / Damina Shaibakova
• 12. Russian in Kyrgyzstan: status, functioning and collisions between languages / Mamed D. Tagaev, Ekaterina Protassova
• Part 3. The Russian-speaking diaspora: 13. Russian in France: from the Russian community to the national education system / Irina Kor Chahine
• 14. Russian in Germany / Katharina Hamann, Kai Witzlack-Makarevich, Nadja Wulff
• 15. Russian and its speakers in Finland / Johanna Viimaranta
• 16. The Russian language in Canada / Veronika Makarova
• 17. Russian dialects outside Russia: the situation in South America / Olga Rovnova
• 18. Connected by digital imagination: discourses of belonging and the community building of Russophone migrants in the USA and Great Britain / Oksana Morgunova (Petrunko), Renat T. Zinnurov
• Part 4. New trends in the functioning of the Russian language: 19. Heritage Russian in the US and the new type of pluricentricity in the context of immigration / Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan
• 20. Family language policy, Russian language use, maintenance and transmission in Cyprus and Sweden / Natalia Ringblom, Sviatlana Karpava
• 21. Russian as a foreign language in Japanese high schools: a multilingual education policy on the margins / Sachiko Yokoi Horii
• Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780367183660
• 0367183668

OCLC:

1091293243

Publisher Number:

40029323022