The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History (Languages and Culture in History) - Hardcover

Offord, Derek; Rjéoutski, Vladislav; Argent, Gesine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9462982724 ISBN 13: 9789462982727

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2019

Synopsis

French; Russian; bilingualism and diglossia; plurilingualism and multilingualism; language debate; social history of language; history of nobilities; Russia and the West; nationalism; the Enlightenment; Romanticism.

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Review:

This is an exemplary study of the history of language, it deserves to be a model for future studies of other languages. The scholarship is impeccable, the range of reading is wide, the judgements inspire confidence. - Peter Burke, Emmanuel College Cambridge[-] [-]"It is really original. Not only this subject, but many others of comparable significance, have hitherto been addressed only by historians with vague and general assumptions about language, or by (socio)linguists with little affinity for the historical context. It is also beautifully written and compellingly argued throughout. So far as I'm aware, this is simply the best thing of its kind available." - Robert Evans, Regius professor of History emeritus, University of Oxford

About the Author:

"https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/dashkova/people/staff/gesine-argent">Dr Gesine Argent is Centre Manager and Research Associate at the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on Russian language culture, language ideology, and language purism.|"https://www.dhi-moskau.org/institut/mitarbeiter-innen/wissenschaft/dr-vladislav-rjeoutski.html">Dr Vladislav Rj outski is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century Russian and French social and cultural history and the history of education, and author or editor of many works on these subjects.|Emeritus Professor "http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/people/derek-c-offord/">Derek Offord, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol. Specialist in Russian cultural and intellectual history and the author or editor of books on early Russian liberalism, Russian travel-writing, the history of Russian thought, and the modern Russian language.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9462982724
• ISBN 13: 9789462982727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 702