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Author: COMRIE Bernard, STONE Gerald, POLINSKY Maria
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by Bernard Comrie; Gerald Stone (With); Maria Polinsky (With)

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Comrie's and Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid 1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing status of women, modes of address and speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes in all these areas have been very substantial, and explore the extent to which the standard language, as portrayed in dictionaries and grammars, coincides with the actual usage--both spoken and written--of educated Russians.

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Bernard Comrie and Gerald Stone's The Russian Language Since the Revolution (OUP, 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid-1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing status of women, modes of address, speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes in all these areas have been substantial, and explore the extent to which the standard language, as portrayed in dictionaries and grammars, coincides with the actual usage - both spoken and written - of educated Russians. The book will be of interest not only to students of Russian but more generally to sociolinguists and those with an interest in language change.

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Title The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century
Author Bernard Comrie; Gerald Stone (With); Maria Polinsky (With)
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 2nd
Edition 2
Pages 400
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher OUP Oxford, Cary, NC, U.S.A.
Date 1996-05-23
ISBN 9780198240662 / 019824066X
Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
Dimensions 8.81 x 5.71 x 1.07 in (22.38 x 14.50 x 2.72 cm)
Reading level 1410
Library of Congress subjects Russian language - Usage, Russian language - Social aspects
Library of Congress Catalog Number 95033058
Dewey Decimal Code 491.709

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Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1996. 9780198240662. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xi + 385 (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down).