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Речь поморов Терского берега Белого моря: Звучащая хрестоматия
Get PDFThis book contains 30 samples of Pomor dialect speech from the Ter Coast of the White Sea, collected between 1961 and 2006. Publishing biographically and linguistically annotated samples of spontaneous dialect speech from the Ter Coast of the White Sea in both written and audio format, it provides the readers with historical and cultural background information to the recordings and sheds light on a selection of rarely discussed linguistic topics: tense and lax consonants, remnants of the dual number in nominal morphology, prosody, language variation and change, postpositive particles and borrowings from indigenous languages. The texts vary in topic, number of participants, situation and speaking style. It includes interview excerpts, recordings of fairy tales, as well as a spontaneous story.
The audio recordings can be downloaded from the CLARINO Bergen Repository (Kola Peninsula Spoken Corpus (KoPeSC) 1; http://hdl.handle.net/11509/150) in .wav or .mp3 format, together with their time-aligned transcriptions to Standard Russian in ELAN, a freely available software programme that enables a simultaneous reading of the text with its sound (https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan). ELAN also allows searches in multiple files.
The book is written not only for researchers, but also for people interested in listening to how the Pomors tell about their life on the Ter Coast of the White Sea.
By 2025 the KoPeSC corpus will be extended with nine hours of transcribed recordings of this dialect and of other varieties of Russian spoken on the Kola Peninsula
Energy/Waste: Approaches to the Environment in Post-Soviet Cultures
Get PDFThis volume investigates representations of energy and waste in post-Soviet cultures. The contributors analyze how post-Soviet societies reinterpret and reimagine not only their role in energy use and waste management, but also their relationship to the Soviet legacy of large-scale environmental changes, pollution, and resource exploitation. By examining how categories of energy and waste are expressed and made visible through discourse, literature, film, art, and other modes of cultural production, the book aims to nuance and enrich environmental approaches in scholarship on the post-Soviet world. The volume’s interdisciplinary chapters highlight the distinctive trajectories of post-Soviet countries’ approaches to environmental regulation and representation in the last three decades
Vladimir Sorokin\u27s Languages
No full textSince coming to the attention of a broader Russian public after the pro-Putin youth movement Walking Together stirred up a storm over Blue Lard in 2002, Vladimir Sorokin has indisputably become one of the most prominent and prolific writers in contemporary Russia, and remains surrounded by an aura of political dissent.
The first book in English dedicated to Sorokin’s œuvre, this volume discusses language as themain focal point of his writing. The contributions focus on the multifaceted dimensions of language(s) and metalanguage(s) in Sorokin’s works, including archaisms and neologisms, foreign terms or intercultural stereotypes, colloquial and vulgar language, metadiscursive distance and the materialization of metaphors. The volume also includes a roundtable discussion on translation, in which Sorokin himself takes part
The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics
Get PDFIn the last decade, culture and art have become arenas of forceful political controversy in Russia. Bringing together an international group of scholars from various disciplines – Russian media studies, the history of ideas, political science, literature and gender studies – this book combines assessments of Russian cultural policies, political ideologies and intellectual trends with case studies on Russian literature, film, rap and memory culture
The Poetry of Prose: Readings in Russian Literature
Get PDFIn prose, and especially in narrative prose, the poetic system of repetitive parallel elements is less conspicuous than in verse composition. And yet the poetry of narrative prose is likewise brought about by elaborate systems of parallels and equivalences that prompt the reader to transform the true-to-life representation of events and characters into higher, symbolic levels of meaning. The readings in this book explore the functions of parallelistic patterning in narrative Russian literature: from the figural interpretation of early East Slavic hagiography — the juxtaposition of saints’ lives with the gospel narratives about the life of Christ — to the deployment of related forms of parabolic projection in the works the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists. It is the uncovering of such patterns that provides access to the symbolic dimension of the Russian novel.
Contents
Preface Introduction Chapter One · Medieval East Slavic Literature 988–1730 Chapter Two · Religion and Art in the Russian Novel Chapter Three · The Function of Hagiography in Dostoevsky’s Novels Chapter Four · Polyphony in The Brothers Karamazov: Variations on a Theme Chapter Five · Dostoevskian Fools—Holy and Unholy Chapter Six · Dostoevsky’s Idiot or the Poetics of Emptiness Chapter Seven · Male Homosocial Desire in The Idiot Chapter Eight · The Last Delusion in an Infinite Series of Delusions: Stavrogin and the Symbolic Structure of Demons Chapter Nine · The Poetry of Prose: The Art of Parallelism in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons Chapter Ten · Seeing the World Through Genres Index of Name
Styling Russia: Multiculture in the Prose of Nikolai Leskov
Get PDFIn response to the clichéd view of Nikolai Leskov as an exceptionally gifted stylist and “the most Russian of writers,” this book explores a nineteneeth-century storyteller who was a patriot and believer in the spiritual uniqueness of the Russian people, yet who also represented, or styled, ethnic identity as unstable and permeable. By combining key concepts from modern literary theory and semiotics, as well as from anthropology and the theory of culture, it investigates the image of human life as portrayed in five of Leskov’s most celebrated works, amongst them Cathedral Folk and The Enchanted Wanderer. Here the lay theological attitudes that inform them can be said to challenge the idea of the multiethnic Empire as a culturally unified nation state.
Knut Andreas Grimstad is Associate Professor and Head of Polish Studies in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. The co-editor of Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose (2005), he has also published on early Russian hagiography as well as Russian nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose. Among Grimstad’s current research interests are popular culture and Jewish-Polish relations in independent Poland 1918–39.
Contents
IntroductionOpinions and approachesMulticulture and the resonance of stylesNational romanticism and national literatureWhat this book does
Chapter One · Myth-Making Movements Mingling, conflict, and syncretism Local discord and everyday heroism Meaning in-between styles/texts/cultures Complexity in simplicity or, a “Russian” Russia Chapter Two · Idyllizing the Russian Provinces A language of feeling The imperfections of the societal idyll Orthodoxy as micro-harmony The multiple facets of sentimental idyllization Chapter Three · The Problem of Multiethnicity Myth, manner, meaning In the company of strangers (otherness, foreignness) The accommodation of Polishness Processing cultural diversity Chapter Four · Adapting the Christian Text The social and the personal Transformation in imitation “Imitation” as continuation Identity formation and the significance of sociality Roots of ambivalence Chapter Five · The Sealed Angel A common contrivance Loss, discovery, or “an account of the places through which we travelled” An English master builder The purpose of sentimental dreaming Chapter Six · The Enchanted Wanderer The adventures of an unwilling adventurer Under the Tatar yoke Gypsies, tramps and thieves Surveying Russian history Chapter Seven · On the Edge of the World A Christological discussion Going East The potential of borderlands Apocatastasis, or an optimistic worldview Chapter Eight · Childhood Years The art of remembering A journey from St Petersburg to Kiev Polishness revisited The dictates of the heart Restless identities: Who are Leskov’s Russians? Epilogue Leskov’s texts as testaments to “idyllic utopia” Religious pluralism or, transcending multiculture By way of conclusion Works Cited Index of Names
 
From Poets to Padonki: Linguistic Authority and Norm Negotiation in Modern Russian Culture
No full textNorms 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
Setevye razgovory: kul’turnye kommunikatsii v Runete
No full textРаспространение цифровых технологий в культуре 2000-х гг. влияет на способы взаимоотношений пользователей со средствами информации и коммуникации. В русскоязычном сегменте Интернета складывается система динамичных социокультурных взаимодействий. Люди из разных групп общества вступают друг с другом в бесконечные разговоры – важные и тривиальные, деловые и игровые, опосредованные новыми технологиями. В них конструируется идентичность говорящих и образы их собеседников, транслируются формулы, при помощи которых реальность наделяется значениями. Рассмотрение повторяющихся фигур речи дает возможность выявить стоящие за ними культурные установки пользователей Рунета.
Проблемы трансформации культурных форм и практик, связанных с освоением цифровых медиа в российской культуре, находятся в центре внимания этой книги. Ее основу составили кейсы, позволяющие изучать специфику языка, стилей коммуникации и онлайновой идентичности у юзеров, общающихся при помощи различных Интернет-сервисов. В книге формулируется вопрос о влиянии практик коммуникации в Интернете на устойчивые паттерны постсоветской идентификации.
Книга адресована исследователям и студентам, изучающим современную российскую культуру, проблемы медиакультуры, языка и коммуникации в условиях цифровых технологий
Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
No full textoai:book.boap.uib.no:publicationFormat/5Rapid changes in post-Soviet political and social life have been accompanied by dramatic shifts in language culture. Bringing together an international team of linguistic and literary scholars, this book explores the dynamic interrelationship between language and literature as it identifi es different responses to the linguistic situation as well as contributing factors in its development. The linguo-cultural practices under scrutiny include language use and language debates, popular and professional linguistic attitudes and their ideological underpinnings, works of artistic prose and poetry, as well as linguistic ideologies and strategies stemming from the Soviet era that continue to be relevant
Contemporary Approaches to Dialectology: the Area of North, Northwest Russian and Belarusian Dialects
No full textThis volume brings together studies from different fields of dialectology with a focus on contemporary methods and understudied subfields. The collection comprises articles on dialectal grammar, historical dialectology, language contact, and theoretical approaches to dialectal variation, as well as sociolinguistic descriptions of particular vernaculars based on first-hand data. Furthermore, the collection addresses central questions in the field, such as the extent to which one may still speak of dialect continua, and the conditions that influence variation in vernaculars across space and time.
The majority of the contributions are case studies that analyse the functional range or diachronic development of specific constructions, or home in on the sociolinguistic environment and provenance of individual speaker groups. Other contributions offer a methodological overview of variationist linguistics or a critical synthesis of previous research