Public debate in Russia : matters of (dis)order / edited by Nikolai Vakhtin and Boris Firsov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vakhtin, Nikolai, Author.

Contributor:

Vakhtin, N. B. (Nikolaĭ Borisovich), editor.

Firsov, B. M., editor.

Series:

Russian language and society.

Russian language and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian language--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).

Russian language.

Debates and debating--Russia (Federation).

Debates and debating.

Sociolinguistics--Russia (Federation).

Sociolinguistics.

Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.

Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The first book to offer a detailed exploration of the condition of public debate in Russia, this pioneering volume presents a truly interdisciplinary perspective on Russian language and society making it essential reading for advanced students and specialist.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Contributors

1. The Discourse of Argumentation in Totalitarian Language and Post-Soviet Communication Failures

2. Russian and Newspeak: Between Myth and Reality

3. ‘A Society that Speaks Concordantly’, or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia

4. Legal Literature ‘for the People’ and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century)

5. ‘How to Write to the Newspaper’: Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language

6. Between the Street and the Kitchen: The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema

7. Was Official Discourse Hegemonic?

8. Attempts to Overcome ‘Public Aphasia’: A Study of Public Discussions in Russia at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century

9. Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning

10. ‘Distances of Vast Dimensions . . .’: Official versus Public Language (Material from Meetings of the Organising Committees of Mass Events, January–February 2012)

11. Insides Made Public: Talking Publicly about the Personal in Post-Soviet Media Culture (The Case of The Fashion Verdict)

12. Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counterdiscourse: Oleg Kozyrev’s ‘Rulitiki’ Internet Videos

13. The Past and Future of Russian Public Language

Notes on Contributors

Subject Index

Name Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-1169-X

OCLC:

1306539156