Russian Language Studies In North America

Author : Veronika Makarova
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287842
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Language Studies in North America written by Veronika Makarova and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.

Author : Albert Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Learns Russian written by Albert Parry and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronologically presented is the slow development of Russian language instruction in America from the latter part of the 18th century at Kodiak, Alaska, to the establishment of large undergraduate departments at leading universities. The influence of Harvard University, the University of California, Columbia University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Pennsylvania is well documented. Sputnik of 1957 serves as a major chronological division in this historical overview. Economic, political, cultural, and religious influences behind the growth of Russian study and forces opposed to its expansion are given detailed attention. Appendixes list past and present officers of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. An extensive index is included.

Author : Arto Mustajoki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429592299
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soft Power of the Russian Language written by Arto Mustajoki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across the former Soviet Union and beyond, the contributors analyze the unifying role of the Russian language for developing transnational connections and show its value in the knowledge economy. They demonstrate that centrifugal developments of Russian and its pluricentricity are grounded in the language and education policies of their host countries, as well as the goals and functions of cultural institutions, such as schools, media, travel agencies, and others created by émigrés for their co-ethnics. This book also reveals the tensions between Russia’s attempts to homogenize the 'Russian world' and the divergence of regional versions of Russian reflecting cultural hybridity of the diaspora. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will prove useful to researchers of Russian and post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, Russian language and culture, linguistics, and immigration studies. Those studying multilingualism and heritage language teaching may also find it interesting.

Author : Evgeny Dengub
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647120020
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Teaching Russian written by Evgeny Dengub and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian-language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most important aspects of teaching the Russian language.

Author : Olesya Kisselev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040003842
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian as a Heritage Language written by Olesya Kisselev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications brings together linguistically and pedagogically oriented research traditions in a comprehensive review of current Russian heritage language (HL) studies. Divided into three parts, the collection offers a variety of frameworks and approaches spanning research on HL speakers’ linguistic and pragmatic competence, literacy development, and sociocultural characteristics of Russian in diaspora. Presenting a wide range of new empirical findings, the volume explores topics at the forefront of HL studies, from assessment of HL learners’ linguistic competence and language attitudes to research on communities and institutional affordances impacting HL acquisition and maintenance. Each chapter connects current research with specific classroom applications, presenting Russian as a global language in various sociopolitical and majority-language contexts. Combining methodological rigor with theoretical insights across diverse areas of language study, Russian as a Heritage Language advances the field of HL pedagogy and serves as essential reading for HL educators and researchers as well as for linguists studying bilingualism.

Author : Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748668462
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Language Outside the Nation written by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of Russian in the contemporary world from a sociolinguistic perspective.

Author : Loretta E. Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793616744
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Orthodox Community in Hong Kong written by Loretta E. Kim and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong has been a unique society from its establishment as a political region separate from mainland China in the nineteenth century under British colonial rule until the present day as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. A hub of interregional and international migration, it has been the temporary and long-term home of people belonging to many racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. This book examines the evolution of the community established by clergy and congregants of the Russian Orthodox Church. This community was first developed in the 1930s and then revived after a hiatus of over two decades from the 1970s to the 1990s with the founding of the Orthodox Parish of Apostles Saints Peter and Paul (OPASPP) at the turn of the twenty-first century. This study demonstrates how the OPASPP has become a vital provider of knowledge about Russian language and culture as well as a religious institution serving both heritage and convert believers. The community formed by and around the OPASPP is important to foster Sino-Russian relations based on individual-to-individual contact and mutual exposure to Chinese and Russian cultures in a region of China which allows spiritual and social diversity with minimal political constraints.

Author : John Langran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981882208
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruslan 1. Textbook. North American Edition. with Audio CD written by John Langran and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition, specialy designed for American students. Textbook comes with a CD. Ruslan 1 was created by teachers in the UK and America with years of experience teaching both adults and young people. The course maximizes the enjoyment of learning a new language, while giving a thorough grammatical and structural introduction in a communicative context. The course can be used by people learning in groups with a teacher, and there are a large number of group activities and language games. But, it is also useful to people learning on their own, especially when used with the Russian 1 Workbook. The approach is practical and communicative, with up-to-date, useful language, thoroughly vetted by Russian teachers living in Russia, and by Russian Language instructors at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Department of Commerce (DOC).

Author : Igor Mel'cuk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311069476X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax written by Igor Mel'cuk and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a typological angle; it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a dependency description. Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction: The Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion. I. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of the world, with special studies of subjects and objects. II. Grammatical voice in the dependency framework: the “passive” construction in Chinese. III. The relative clause: a calculus and analysis of possible types; the pseudo-relative (“headless”) clause. IV. Binary conjunctions (such as IF ..., THEN ...), free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where), and syntactic idioms. V. Word order: linearization of dependency structures. The monograph offers a new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from typologically diverse languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Basque, Georgian, etc.) and based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved, which ensures a link with computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing

Author : Claire Hitchins Chik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429016883
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingual La La Land written by Claire Hitchins Chik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to immigrants from more than 140 countries speaking over 180 languages, Los Angeles is a microcosm of the world. While Los Angeles' ethnic enclaves have been the subject of study by researchers from a wide range of fields, these enclaves remain under-researched from a linguistic standpoint. Multilingual La La Land addresses the sociolinguistic landscape of the Greater Los Angeles (GLA) area, providing in-depth accounts of the sixteen most spoken languages other than English in the region. Each chapter introduces the history of the language in the L.A. region, uses census figures and residential densities to examine location-based and network-based speech communities, and discusses the patterns of usage that characterize the language, including motivations to maintain the language. How these patterns and trends bear on the vitality of each language is a central consideration of this book.