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Record Nr.

UNISA996472052903316

Autore

Vakhtin Nikolai

Titolo

Public debate in Russia : matters of (dis)order / / edited by Nikolai Vakhtin and Boris Firsov [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-4744-1169-X

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Russian language and society series

Disciplina

491.701/43

Soggetti

Russian language - Political aspects - Russia (Federation)

Debates and debating - Russia (Federation)

Sociolinguistics - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.