From Poets to Padonki: Linguistic Authority and Norm Negotiation in Modern Russian Culture
Synopsis
Norms are essential to the human condition. Whether in the guise of tradition, culture, canon or rules, norms are therefore central to studies in the humanities. This book focuses on Russian language culture of the post-revolutionary and post-Soviet periods, times when norms — linguistic and otherwise — have been eagerly debated, challenged, broken and redefined. Exploring the intersections between linguistic authority and creative response, an international team of scholars examines different realms of linguistic practice (literary fiction, internet slang, literary criticism and aesthetics, writers’ blogs, linguistic play) and various arenas for “talk about talk” (the classroom, blogs, the media, or the courtroom). By combining various approaches and disciplines — linguistics, literary criticism, new media studies — the book as a whole explores the multiplicity of meanings that are accorded to the notion of linguistic norms in the Russian community. The result is both a broad and a detailed picture of important trends in modern Russian language culture.
Chapters
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Contents
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Introduction
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Living Norms
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Norm Negotiations in Russian Literary Criticism
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«Язык падонкаф»Дискуссии пользователей Рунета
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«Я не употребляю древние вводные слова…»
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Wrong Is the New Right. Or Is It?Linguistic Identity in Russian Writers’ Weblogs
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Performative MetalanguageNegotiating Norms Through Verbal Action
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The Old Man’s New LanguageSemantic Shifts and Linguistic Countermeasures in Aleksei Slapovskii’s Oni
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The Compliance with and Imposition of Social and Linguistic Norms in Sorokin’s Norma and Den’ oprichnika
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When Non-Negotiation is the NormSorokin’s Tridtsataia liubov’ Mariny and Tsvetaeva’s Krysolov
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«Мир, который стал сам не свой» в эстетике молодого Пастернака
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«Оползень Опояза»Образ оползня в работах формалистов
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Pasternak’s Iskazhenie and the Practice of Creative Evolution
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Судебная экспертиза и вклад лингвиста в интерпретацию закона
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Инструменты описания неполной коммуникации в блогосфере
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How Upright is the Vertical?Ideological Norm Negotiation in Russian Media Discourse
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“We Speak Russian!”New Models of Norm Negotiation in the Electronic Media
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Contributors
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Colophone
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Index of Names
