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## Explores how knowledge of French helped shape Russian identities and their views on the Russian language This is the second of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin. Set against the background of the rapid transformation of Russia into a major European power, the two volumes of __French and Russian in Imperial Russia__ consider the functions of multilingualism and the use of French as a prestige language among the elite, as well as the benefits of Franco-Russian bilingualism and the anxieties to which it gave rise. This second volume, __Language Attitudes and Identity__, explores the impact of French on Russian language attitudes, especially among the literary community. It examines the ways in which perceptions of Russian francophonie helped to shape social, political and cultural identity as Russia began to seek space of its own in the European cultural landscape. In the process, it investigates approaches to translation, journalistic debate about language, literary representation of devotees of French social practice

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Author

Derek Offord; Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke; Vladislav Rjéoutski; Gesine Argent

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748695546

Category

nonfiction