Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938: The Birth of Sociological LinguisticsCraig Brandist, Katya Chown 'Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938' provides ground-breaking research into the relationship between linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR. This work introduces some of the era's most notable figures whose achievements have been largely overlooked in the West, and provides a thought-provoking discussion of the innovative approaches they developed. Some of these insights still have a progressive role to play in scholarship today. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soviet Linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s | 17 |
Theoretical Insights and Ideological Pressures in Early Soviet | 53 |
Early Soviet Linguistics and Mikhail Bakhtins Essays | 69 |
Language as a Battlefield the Rhetoric of Class Struggle | 89 |
Language Nation Stalin | 105 |
Grigorii Vinokurs Applied | 123 |
Language Ideology and the Evolution of Kultura iazyka | 137 |
Psychology Linguistics and the Rise of Applied Social Science | 151 |
Theses | 169 |
Glossary of Names | 181 |
List of Contributors | 189 |
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