This book explores how knowledge of French helped shape Russian
identities and their views on the Russian language. This is the
second volume in a two volume set which explores the profound
impact of the French language and culture on Russian high society
and consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Volume 2 provides insights into the ways in which bilingualism was
negotiated at court and among the cosmopolitan high nobility in
Imperial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment and the subsequent
Romantic age, when cultural nationalists began to associate
national essence with the monolingual peasantry. It discusses the
linguistic means by which Russian social, political and cultural
identities began to be created and explores the part played by
foreign language use in stimulating the enrichment and
standardisation of the Russian vernacular and in encouraging the
development of a firm sense of national identity and early Russian
nationalism. It deepens our understanding of the process by which
Russia was integrated into the mainstream of modern European
civilisation. It contributes to knowledge of the development of
national self consciousness in Russia. It extends awareness of the
importance of francophonie in European culture, especially during
the age of the Enlightenment and the Romantic age. It provides an
in depth example of the social and cultural effects of major
language contact. It also introduces readers to the discussion of
the positive and negative effects of bilingualism or
multilingualism and biculturalism or multiculturalism.
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