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Russian : a monocentric or pluricentric language?

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Date
18/12/2018
Author
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
Keywords
Russian language
Russian world ideology
Pluricentric languages
Language politics
Nationalism
Neo-imperialism
Linguistic imperialism
Post-Soviet studies
Language classification
Monocentric languages
National varieties of languages
State specific varieties of languages
Hybrid war
De-ethnicization
Non-Russian Russophones
Russophone states
Russo-Ukrainian war
State varieties of Russian
P Language and Literature
T-NDAS
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Abstract
All the world’s ‘big’ languages of international communication (for instance, English, French or Spanish) are pluricentric in their character, meaning that official varieties of these languages are standardized differently in those states where the aforesaid languages are in official use. The only exception to this tendency is Russian. Despite the fact that Russian is employed in an official capacity in numerous post-Soviet states and in Israel, it is still construed as a monocentric language whose single and unified standard is (and must be) solely controlled by Russia. From the perspective of sovereignty, this arrangement affords Moscow a degree of influence and even control over culture and language use in the countries where Russian is official. This fact was consciously noticed and evoked some heated discussions in Ukraine after the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea in 2014. However, thus far, the discussions have not translated into any official recognition of (let alone encouragement for) state specific varieties of the Russian language.
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Kamusella , T D 2018 , ' Russian : a monocentric or pluricentric language? ' , Colloquia Humanistica , vol. 7 , pp. 153-196 . https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2018.010
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Colloquia Humanistica
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2018.010
ISSN
2392-2419
Type
Journal article
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© The Author, 2018. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 PL License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/), which permits redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, provided that the article is properly cited.
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https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/ch/article/view/ch.2018.010
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16717

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