Language and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia
Title | Language and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia PDF eBook |
Author | V. M. Zhivov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
Zhivov's magisterial work tells the story of the creation of a new vernacularliterary language in modern Russia, an achievement arguably on a par with thenation's extraordinary military successes, territorial expansion, developmentof the arts, and formation of a modern empire.
French and Russian in Imperial Russia
Title | French and Russian in Imperial Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Offord |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-06-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748695540 |
This volume explores the impact of French on Russian language attitudes, especially among the literary community. It examines the ways in which perceptions of Russian francophonie helped to shape social, political and cultural identity as Russia began to seek space of its own in the European cultural landscape.
Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century
Title | Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference |
Publisher | |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
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The French Language in Russia
Title | The French Language in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Offord |
Publisher | |
Pages | 699 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY |
ISBN | 9789048532766 |
The French Language in Russia' provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language by the elites of imperial Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is interdisciplinary, approaching its subject from the angles of various kinds of history and historical sociolinguistics. Beyond its bearing on some of the grand narratives of Russian thought and literature, this book may afford more general insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary implications and effects of bilingualism in a speech community over a long period. It should also enlarge understanding of francophonie as a pan-European phenomenon. On the broadest plane, it has significance in an age of unprecedented global connectivity, for it invites us to look beyond the experience of a single nation and the social groups and individuals within it in order to discover how languages and the cultures and narratives associated with them have been shared across national boundaries.
A Linguistic History of Russia to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Title | A Linguistic History of Russia to the End of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | A. P. Vlasto |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Russe (langue) - jusqu'à 1800 |
ISBN | 9780198156628 |
This is the first complete and balanced historical grammar of Russian to appear in many years. Clear and readable, with none of the technicalities of theoretical linguistics, it is destined to become the standard introduction in English to Slavonic philology. Focusing on language as it was actually used, the book is accessible to those students of Russian whose main interest is in literature rather than philology. Vlasto traces the merging of Russian with Old Church Slavonic to the evolution of classical modern Russian--the standard literary language--at the end of the 18th century.
Translation and the Westernization of Eighteenth-Century Russia
Title | Translation and the Westernization of Eighteenth-Century Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Sergey Tyulenev |
Publisher | Frank & Timme GmbH |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2012-09-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3865964729 |
The book considers the role of translation in the reformation of Russia along Western European lines in the eighteenth century. Translation is presented as a key social-systemic factor in the dynamics of the relationship between the system and its environment — between Russia and Western Europe. The author draws on contemporary historiography and social theory, primarily Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory, but also concepts of other sociologists and historians, such as Gumilev, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson, amongst others. This allows the author to conduct a comprehensive analysis of social involvements of translation. Importantly, this case study aspires to pave the way for research of the social role of translation of universal validity.
The French Language in Russia
Title | The French Language in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Offord |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Bilingualism |
ISBN | 9789462982727 |
-- With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau --The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language by the elites of imperial Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is interdisciplinary, approaching its subject from the angles of various kinds of history and historical sociolinguistics. Beyond its bearing on some of the grand narratives of Russian thought and literature, this book may afford more general insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary implications and effects of bilingualism in a speech community over a long period. It should also enlarge understanding of francophonie as a pan-European phenomenon. On the broadest plane, it has significance in an age of unprecedented global connectivity, for it invites us to look beyond the experience of a single nation and the social groups and individuals within it in order to discover how languages and the cultures and narratives associated with them have been shared across national boundaries.