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Article: The Russian Language Today.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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The Russian Language Today. By LARISSA RYAZANOVA-CLARKE and TERENCE WADE. London and New York: Routledge. xi + 369 pp. 1999. 18.99 [pounds sterling].
This book examines the state of the Russian language at the end of the twentieth century. The authors' primary concern is with the effect on the language of the sweeping political and social changes that have taken place since the introduction of perestroika and glasnost' in the mid-1980s, especially in the fields of vocabulary and word formation. In order to establish a context for their account of this effect they devote Chapter 1 to a lengthy examination of lexical change in the period 1917-85. They then in Chapter 2 ...