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Author : Veronika Makarova
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857287847
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.
Author : Veronika Makarova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 1783080469
'Russian Language Studies in North America: New Perspectives from Theoretical and Applied Linguistics' offers a unique collection of research papers representing current directions in Russian language studies in Canada and the United States. Traditionally, Slavic and Russian studies in these countries have centered around literature, history, politics and culture. This volume reflects recent changes in Russian studies by focusing on language structure, language use and teaching methodology. The volume brings together several generations of scholars, from young promising researchers to those with long-established reputations in the field.
Author : Albert Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015029406306
Chronologically presented is the slow development of Russian language instruction in America from the latter part of the 18th century at Kodiak, Alaska, to the establishment of large undergraduate departments at leading universities. The influence of Harvard University, the University of California, Columbia University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Pennsylvania is well documented. Sputnik of 1957 serves as a major chronological division in this historical overview. Economic, political, cultural, and religious influences behind the growth of Russian study and forces opposed to its expansion are given detailed attention. Appendixes list past and present officers of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. An extensive index is included.
Author : Arto Mustajoki,Ekaterina Protassova,Maria Yelenevskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429592294
Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across the former Soviet Union and beyond, the contributors analyze the unifying role of the Russian language for developing transnational connections and show its value in the knowledge economy. They demonstrate that centrifugal developments of Russian and its pluricentricity are grounded in the language and education policies of their host countries, as well as the goals and functions of cultural institutions, such as schools, media, travel agencies, and others created by émigrés for their co-ethnics. This book also reveals the tensions between Russia’s attempts to homogenize the 'Russian world' and the divergence of regional versions of Russian reflecting cultural hybridity of the diaspora. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will prove useful to researchers of Russian and post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, Russian language and culture, linguistics, and immigration studies. Those studying multilingualism and heritage language teaching may also find it interesting.
Author : Evgeny Dengub,Irina Dubinina,Jason Merrill
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781647120023
The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian-language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most important aspects of teaching the Russian language.
Author : Olesya Kisselev,Oksana Laleko,Irina Dubinina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781040003848
Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications brings together linguistically and pedagogically oriented research traditions in a comprehensive review of current Russian heritage language (HL) studies. Divided into three parts, the collection offers a variety of frameworks and approaches spanning research on HL speakers’ linguistic and pragmatic competence, literacy development, and sociocultural characteristics of Russian in diaspora. Presenting a wide range of new empirical findings, the volume explores topics at the forefront of HL studies, from assessment of HL learners’ linguistic competence and language attitudes to research on communities and institutional affordances impacting HL acquisition and maintenance. Each chapter connects current research with specific classroom applications, presenting Russian as a global language in various sociopolitical and majority-language contexts. Combining methodological rigor with theoretical insights across diverse areas of language study, Russian as a Heritage Language advances the field of HL pedagogy and serves as essential reading for HL educators and researchers as well as for linguists studying bilingualism.
Author : Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748668465
This book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of Russian in the contemporary world from a sociolinguistic perspective.
Author : Evgeny Dengub,Irina Dubinina,Jason Merrill
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781647120030
The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian-language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most important aspects of teaching the Russian language.
Author : Loretta E. Kim,Chengyi Zhou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793616746
Hong Kong has been a unique society from its establishment as a political region separate from mainland China in the nineteenth century under British colonial rule until the present day as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. A hub of interregional and international migration, it has been the temporary and long-term home of people belonging to many racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. This book examines the evolution of the community established by clergy and congregants of the Russian Orthodox Church. This community was first developed in the 1930s and then revived after a hiatus of over two decades from the 1970s to the 1990s with the founding of the Orthodox Parish of Apostles Saints Peter and Paul (OPASPP) at the turn of the twenty-first century. This study demonstrates how the OPASPP has become a vital provider of knowledge about Russian language and culture as well as a religious institution serving both heritage and convert believers. The community formed by and around the OPASPP is important to foster Sino-Russian relations based on individual-to-individual contact and mutual exposure to Chinese and Russian cultures in a region of China which allows spiritual and social diversity with minimal political constraints.
Author : Igor Mel'cuk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110694765
The monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a typological angle; it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a dependency description. Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction: The Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion. I. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of the world, with special studies of subjects and objects. II. Grammatical voice in the dependency framework: the “passive” construction in Chinese. III. The relative clause: a calculus and analysis of possible types; the pseudo-relative (“headless”) clause. IV. Binary conjunctions (such as IF ..., THEN ...), free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where), and syntactic idioms. V. Word order: linearization of dependency structures. The monograph offers a new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from typologically diverse languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Basque, Georgian, etc.) and based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved, which ensures a link with computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing
Author : John Langran,Natalya Veshnyeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098188220X
Revised edition, specialy designed for American students. Textbook comes with a CD. Ruslan 1 was created by teachers in the UK and America with years of experience teaching both adults and young people. The course maximizes the enjoyment of learning a new language, while giving a thorough grammatical and structural introduction in a communicative context. The course can be used by people learning in groups with a teacher, and there are a large number of group activities and language games. But, it is also useful to people learning on their own, especially when used with the Russian 1 Workbook. The approach is practical and communicative, with up-to-date, useful language, thoroughly vetted by Russian teachers living in Russia, and by Russian Language instructors at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Department of Commerce (DOC).
Author : Claire Hitchins Chik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429016882
Home to immigrants from more than 140 countries speaking over 180 languages, Los Angeles is a microcosm of the world. While Los Angeles' ethnic enclaves have been the subject of study by researchers from a wide range of fields, these enclaves remain under-researched from a linguistic standpoint. Multilingual La La Land addresses the sociolinguistic landscape of the Greater Los Angeles (GLA) area, providing in-depth accounts of the sixteen most spoken languages other than English in the region. Each chapter introduces the history of the language in the L.A. region, uses census figures and residential densities to examine location-based and network-based speech communities, and discusses the patterns of usage that characterize the language, including motivations to maintain the language. How these patterns and trends bear on the vitality of each language is a central consideration of this book.
Author : Nikolay Slavkov,Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer,Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512353
The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such norms are still ubiquitous in educational, institutional and social settings, in political structures and in research paradigms. This collection offers voices from various contexts and corners of the world and further challenges the native speaker construct adopting poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives. It includes conceptual, methodological, educational and practice-oriented contributions. Topics span language minorities, intercomprehension, plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, translanguaging, teacher education, new speakers, language background profiling, heritage languages, and learner identity, among others. Collectively, the authors paint the portrait of the "changing face of the native speaker" while also strengthening a new global agenda in multilingualism and social justice. These diverse and interconnected contributions are meant to inspire researchers, university students, educators, policy makers and beyond.
Author : Anna A. Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108786386
Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and Russian literary traditions. His non-fiction incensed readers and drew a massive following, making Tolstoy an important religious force as well as a stubborn polemicist in many fields. Through his involvement with Gandhi and the Indian independence movement, his aid in relocating the Doukhobors to Canada, his correspondence with American abolitionists and his polemics with scientists in the periodical press, Tolstoy engaged a vast array of national and international contexts of his time in his life and thought. This volume introduces those contexts and situates Tolstoy—the man and the writer—in the rich and tumultuous period in which his intellectual and creative output came to fruition.
Author : Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268198
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.