Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries write by Aneta Pavlenko. This book was released on 2008. Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries.
Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia
Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia write by Brian P. Bennett. This book was released on 2011-04-29. Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Church Slavonic, one of the world’s historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture.
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy write by Bernard Spolsky. This book was released on 2012-03. The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.
Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders
Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders write by Janny H.C. Leung. This book was released on 2019-01-28. Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What challenges face jurisdictions that attempt to conduct law in two or more languages? How does choosing a legal language affect the way in which justice is delivered? Answers to these questions are vital for the 75 officially bilingual and multilingual states of the world, as well as for other states contemplating a move towards multilingualism. Arguably such questions have implications for all countries in a world characterized by the pressures of globalization, economic integration, population mobility, decolonization, and linguistic re-colonization. For lawyers, addressing such challenges is made essential by the increased frequency and scale of transnational legal dealings and proceedings, as well as by the lengthening reach of international law. But it is not only policy makers, legislators, and other legal practitioners who must think about such questions. The relationship between societal multilingualism and law also raises questions for the burgeoning field of language and law, which posits--among other tenets--the centrality of language in legal processes. In this book, Janny H.C. Leung examines key aspects of legal multilingualism. Drawing extensively on case studies, she describes the implications of the legal, practical, and ideological dilemmas encountered in a given country when it becomes bilingual or multilingual, discussing such issues as: how legal certainty and the linguistic ideology of authenticity may be challenged in a multilingual jurisdiction; how courts balance the language preferences of different courtroom participants; and what historical, socio-political and economic factors may influence the decision to cement a given language as a jurisdiction's official language. Throughout, Leung elaborates a theory of "symbolic jurisprudence" to explore common dilemmas found across countries, despite their varied political and cultural settings, and argues that linguistic equality as proclaimed and practiced today is a shallow kind of equality. Although officially multilingual jurisdictions appear to be more inclusive than their monolingual counterparts, they run the risk of disguising substantive inequalities and displacing real efforts for more progressive social change. This is the first book to offer overarching discussion of how such issues relate to each other, and the first systematic study of legal multilingualism as a global phenomenon.
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union write by Diana Forker. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.
