The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century |
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| Author:
| Comrie, Bernard
Stone, Gerald
Polinsky, Maria |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-824066-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1996 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $350.00AUD $442.00 |
Book Description:
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A comprehensive account of the substantial changes that have taken place in Russian between 1900 and the glasnost period of the mid-1980s. The authors discuss changes in the grammar and pronunciation of the language and in its use, addressing the central sociolinguistic issues of the status of women, modes of address, speech etiquette, and orthography.
A comprehensive account of the substantial changes that have taken place in Russian between 1900 and the glasnost period of the mid-1980s. The authors discuss changes in the grammar and pronunciation of the language and in its use, addressing the central sociolinguistic issues of the status of women, modes of address, speech etiquette, and orthography.