Troublesome Words : A Cultural History of Russian
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Hardback
Book Series
Language Worlds
ISBN-10
1836392664
ISBN-13
9781836392668
Publisher
Reaktion Books
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Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 24th, 2026
Print length
304 Pages
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How Russian was shaped by centuries of conflict, creativity and cultural change
Language can be a battleground of ideas, and nowhere is this more vivid than in the Russian context. Across 350 years, Russian has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a literary standard to digital-era debates about slang, obscenity and online identity. Simon Franklin traces how tradition and disruption have continually reshaped the language, including sections on the discovery by the educated elite of the language of ‘the people’, the linguistic experiments of writers and revolutionaries, the rhetoric of empire and politics. Clear, concise and engaging, Troublesome Words is both a history and a cultural portrait, examining the global diversity of Russian today and revealing how language reflects power, imagination and the changing world.
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