The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, Revised Ed)

Bernard Comrie and Gerald Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid 1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing staus of women, modes of address and speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes in all these areas have been very substantial, and explore the extent to which the standard language, as portrayed in dictionaries and grammars, coincides with the actual usage - both spoken and written - of educated Russians. The book will be of interest not only to students of Russian but more generally to sociolinguists and those with an interest in language change.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1996
First published:	March 1996
Authors:	Bernard Comrie (Professor of Linguistics) • Gerald Stone (University Lecturer in Slavonic Languages and Fellow) • Maria Polinsky (Assistant Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions:	224 x 144 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	396
Edition:	Revised Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-824066-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-824066-X
Barcode:	9780198240662

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