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Michael S. Gorham - After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin - 9780801452628 - V9780801452628
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After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

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Description for After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.

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, ... Read more

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. Gorham 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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452628
SKU
V9780801452628
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Michael S. Gorham
Michael S. Gorham is Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. He is the author of Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia and coeditor of Digital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication.

Reviews for After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin
In this book Gorham decided to survey a very dynamic and unstable period of Russian contemporary history that has not yet been studied from the perspective of language culture.... Gorham's innovative work, referring to numerous historical and socio-political contexts, not only enables a better undestanding of the last 25 years of the Russian Federation, but also offers a new perspective ... Read more

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