Language on Display : Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet ...

Language on Display : Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, Paperback by Lunde, Ingunn, ISBN 1474452299, ISBN-13 9781474452298, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKPost-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage, a time when the language question permeated all spheres of social, cultural and political life.Key topics for debate included the Soviet linguistic legacy, the past and future of Russian, linguistic variation, language policy and linguistic ideologies. This book looks at how these debates featured in literature and illustrates the discussion through six interpretive readings of post-SovietRussian prose. It analyses both the writers' explicit and implicit responses and in doing opens up new perspectives for sociolinguistic research on metalanguage.Spanning a number of theoretical fields including language variation, language policy and literary stylistics, Ingunn Lunde provides a coherent way of triangulating these fields by the introduction of the concept of performative metalanguage. Th also offers insight into the role of writers inthe broader social and political context of language culture in contemporary Russia and into the various ways in which the linguistic and aesthetic practices of literary art can engage in questions related to the negotiation of linguistic norms.