Read After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

Michael S. Gorham

4.9/5 (26552 ratings)

Description:In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. Gorham begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language. He documents the role and fate of the Russian language in the collapse of the USSR and the decades of reform and national reconstruction that have followed. Gorham demonstrates the inextricable linkage of language and politics in everything from dictionaries of profanity to the flood of publications on linguistic self-help, the speech patterns of the country s leaders, the blogs of its bureaucrats, and the official programs promoting the use of Russian in the so-called "near abroad."Gorham explains why glasnost figured as such a critical rhetorical battleground in the political strife that led to the Soviet Union s collapse and shows why Russians came to deride the newfound freedom of speech of the 1990s as little more than the right to swear in public. He assesses the impact of Medvedev s role as Blogger-in-Chief and the role Putin s vulgar speech practices played in the restoration of national pride. And he investigates whether Internet communication and new media technologies have helped to consolidate a more vibrant democracy and civil society or if they serve as an additional resource for the political technologies manipulated by the Kremlin."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin. To get started finding After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0801470560

Description: In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. Gorham begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language. He documents the role and fate of the Russian language in the collapse of the USSR and the decades of reform and national reconstruction that have followed. Gorham demonstrates the inextricable linkage of language and politics in everything from dictionaries of profanity to the flood of publications on linguistic self-help, the speech patterns of the country s leaders, the blogs of its bureaucrats, and the official programs promoting the use of Russian in the so-called "near abroad."Gorham explains why glasnost figured as such a critical rhetorical battleground in the political strife that led to the Soviet Union s collapse and shows why Russians came to deride the newfound freedom of speech of the 1990s as little more than the right to swear in public. He assesses the impact of Medvedev s role as Blogger-in-Chief and the role Putin s vulgar speech practices played in the restoration of national pride. And he investigates whether Internet communication and new media technologies have helped to consolidate a more vibrant democracy and civil society or if they serve as an additional resource for the political technologies manipulated by the Kremlin."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin. To get started finding After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

More Books

Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

MASTERING THE PERVERSE: STATE BUILDING AND LANGUAGE "PURIFICATION" IN EARLY SOVIET RUSSIA

MASTERING THE PERVERSE: STATE BUILDING AND LANGUAGE "PURIFICATION" IN EARLY SOVIET RUSSIA

Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age

Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age

Electronic Exchanges: The Global Transformation from Pits to Bits (He Elsevier and Iit Stuart Center for Financial Markets Press)

Electronic Exchanges: The Global Transformation from Pits to Bits (He Elsevier and Iit Stuart Center for Financial Markets Press)

Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

The Bacon family: its links with Gorhambury, St. Michael's, and St. Albans 1560 -1880

The Bacon family: its links with Gorhambury, St. Michael's, and St. Albans 1560 -1880

India's Financial Markets by Shah, Ajay, Thomas, Susan, Gorham, Michael. (Elsevier Science,2008) [Hardcover]

India's Financial Markets by Shah, Ajay, Thomas, Susan, Gorham, Michael. (Elsevier Science,2008) [Hardcover]

The Real book of American tall tales (The Real Book Series, 30)

The Real book of American tall tales (The Real Book Series, 30)