The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History |
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| Author:
| Nakhimovsky, Alexander D. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4985-7503-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $111.00 |
Book Description:
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This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants' tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.
This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants' tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.