The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century - A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History (Hardcover)

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were 100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse. Different social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The chronological organization of the book and the analysis of powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic Soviet experience.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
Dimensions:	234 x 158 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-7503-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-4985-7503-X
Barcode:	9781498575034

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