Public Debate in Russia: Matters of (Dis)Order

ISBN-13: 9781474428514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 416 str.

Boris Firsov

Opis

The first book to offer a detailed exploration of the condition of public debate in Russia, this pioneering volume presents a truly interdisciplinary perspective on Russian language and society making it essential reading for advanced students and specialist.

Spis treści

Introduction: Nikolai Vakhtin, Boris Firsov

Chapter 1: The discourse of argumentation in totalitarian language and post-Soviet communication failures, Nikolai Vakhtin

Chapter 2: Russian and Newspeak: between Myth and Reality, Maxim Krongauz

Chapter 3: ‘A Society that Speaks Concordantly’ or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia, Dmitrii Kalugin

Chapter 4: Legal Literature ‘for the People’ and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century), Michel Tissier

Chapter 5: ‘How to Write to the Newspapers’: Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language, Catriona Kelly

Chapter 6:The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema, Valerii V’iugin

Chapter 7: Was Official Discourse Hegemonic? Boris Firsov

Chapter 8: Attempts to overcome ‘public aphasia’: an analysis of public discussions in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Boris Gladarev

Chapter 9: Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning, Alexandra Kasatkina

Chapter 10: ‘Distances of Vast Dimensions...’: Official versus Public Language (material from meetings of the organising committees of mass meetings and events, January–February 2012), Kapitolina Fedorova

Chapter 11: Insides made public: Talking publicly about personal in post-Soviet media culture (the example of the Fashion Verdict programme), Juliia Lerner, Klavdiia Zbenovich

Chapter 12: Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counter-discourse: Oleg Kozyrev’s Internet Videos ‘Rulitiki’, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

Chapter 13: The Past and Future of Russian Public Language, Oleg Kharkhordin

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