Table of Contents: Politics and the theory of language in the USSR, 1917-1938

Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors:	Brandist, Craig,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Sociolinguistics > History. > Soviet Union Linguistics > Philosophy > Soviet Union > History. Linguistics > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History. Linguistics > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History. Linguists > Soviet Union Russian language > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History. Russian language > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History. Language policy > History. > Soviet Union Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10481473

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Craig Brandist
Soviet linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s and the scholarly heritage / Vladimir M. Alpatov
"Sociology" in Soviet linguistics of the 1920-30s : Shor, Polivanov and Voloshinov / Mika Lθahteenmθaki
Theoretical insights and ideological pressures in early Soviet linguistics : the cases of Lev Iakubinskii and Boris Larin / Victoria Gulida
Early Soviet linguistics and Mikhail Bakhtin's essays on the novel of the 1930s / Craig Brandist and Mika Lθahteenmθaki
Language as a battlefield : the rhetoric of class struggle in linguistic debates of the first five-year plan period : the case of E.D. Polivanov vs. G.K. Danilov / Kapitolina Fedorova
The tenacity of forms : language, nation, Stalin / Michael G. Smith
The word as culture : Grigorii Vinokur's applied language science / Vladislava Reznik
Language ideology and the evolution of kul§tura iazyka ("speech culture") in Soviet Russia / Michael S. Gorham
Psychology, linguistics and the rise of applied social science in the USSR : Isaak Shpil§reζin's Language of the Red Army soldier / Craig Brandist
Appendix 1: Introduction to japhetidology : theses / Ivan Meshchaninov ; translated and with an introduction by Craig Brandist
Appendix 2: Glossary of names
Appendix 3: List of contributors.