The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781498575058)

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were 100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no speakers of the dialect left today.
In this study, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse.
Different social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The chronological organization of the book and the analysis of powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic Soviet experience.

Author: Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
ISBN-10: 1498575056
ISBN-13: 9781498575058
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2022
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d