Indigenous minorities of Siberia and Russian sociolinguistics of the 1920s: A life apart?
| Autor: | Nikolai Vakhtin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Acta Borealia. 32:171-189 |
| ISSN: | 1503-111X 0800-3831 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08003831.2015.1089672 |
| Popis: | In the 1920s, two strong intellectual trends were simultaneously developing in Russia: the studies of languages and cultures of the indigenous population of Siberia and the Far North (led by Vladimir Bogoras, Leo Shternberg, and others), and sociolinguistic studies (led by Evgeniy Polivanov, Afanasiy Selischev, Rosaliya Shor, and others). Sociolinguistics as a new and fashionable branch of knowledge included many topics (sociolinguistic theory, social dialectology, influence of rapid social changes on language), but there never were attempts to study sociolinguistically the languages of indigenous “Northern” minorities. In 1929 Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetskoy, who by that time were both living abroad, launched a project called “Languages of the USSR.” The project could have united the two trends, but it was soon terminated because of the Great Depression in the West and a sharp turn in Stalin's policy in 1929 when many Russian scholars were prosecuted, academia became split in a fight over w... |
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