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Article: Language and Society in Post-Communist Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Language and Society in Post-Communist Europe. Ed. by J. A. DUNN. (Selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995) Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1999. xiii + 177 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].
With the exception of two chapters on Komi-Permiak and Ukrainian, and a concluding essay on the nineteenth-century linguistician Aleksandr Potebnja, the contributors to this volume analyse changes in the Russian language, chiefly those occurring during the early 1990s. The result is an account of rapid lexical development, prompted by the socio-economic and political transition. V. M. Mokienko suggests that it would be wrong, however, to ...