Russian As a Transnational Language - Resonance, Remembrance, Renewal

This collection contributes to emerging work in critical sociolinguistics, using a multidisciplinary and multi-scalar approach to understanding the diasporic experience in the Russian-speaking world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language and linguistic anthropology.

List of contents

List of Contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Contextualizing the Volume Olga Solovova and Sabina Vakser, Chapter 1 The dissolution of the USSR, the Newly Independent States and their Diaspora Policies Olga Gulina, Chapter 2 Towards Post-Russianness? Narrative Adjustment among Kazakhstani Teachers of Russian Juldyz Smagulova and Eleonora Suleimenova, Chapter 3 Russian Immigrants in Portugal: Diasporic Nationalism and Identities Elena Bulakh, Chapter 4 Workplace Experiences of Russian-speaking Women in Japan: Victimhood Narrated Ksenia Golovina and Varvara Mukhina, Chapter 5 Russian Speakers in Finland: Online Discussions of the Russian language Vera Zvereva, Chapter 6 Bridging and Bonding on-line: Russian-speaking Migrants in the United Kingdom and Their Social Networks Oksana Morgunova, Chapter 7 How to "Immigrate into History": Russian Speakers in the Finnish Border Region and the Politics of Memory in Transnational Settings Olga Davydova-Minguet, Concluding remarks Renewal as the Unfolding Future: Ways Forward in Multilingual, Diasporic Research Sabina Vakser and Olga Solovova, Index

Product details

• Authors: Olga (University of Oslo Solovova
• Assisted by: Olga Solovova (Editor), Sabina Vakser (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032639987
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263998-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Eastern Europe, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Colonialism & imperialism, Regional Studies, Russian, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity