Vakhtin, Nikolai. The Discourse of Argumentation in Totalitarian Language and Post-Soviet Communication Failures / N. Vakhtin Krongauz, Maksim. Russian and Newspeak : between Myth and Reality / M. Krongauz Kalugin, Dmitrii. "A Society that Speaks Concordantly", or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia / D. Kalugin Tissier, Michel. Legal Literature "for the People" and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century) / M. Tissier Kelly, Catriona. "How to Write to the Newspaper" : Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language / C. Kelly Viugin, Valerii. Between the Street and the Kitchen : the Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema / V. Viugin Firsov, Boris. Was Official Discourse Hegemonic? / B. Firsov Gladarev, Boris. Attempts to Overcome "Public Aphasia" : a Study of Public Discussions in Russia at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century / B. Gladarev Kasatkina, Alexandra. Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning / A. Kasatkina Fedorova, Kapitolina. "Distances of Vast Dimensions..." : Official versus Public Language (Material from Meetings of the Organising Committees of Mass Events, January - February 2012) / K. Fedorova Lerner, Julia. Insides Made Public : Talking Publicly about the Personal in Post-Soviet Media Culture (The Case of "The Fashion Verdict") / J. Lerner, C. Zbenovich Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara. Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counterdiscourse : Oleg Kozyrev's "Rulitiki" Internet Videos / L. Ryazanova-Clarke Kharkhordin, Oleg. The Past and Future of Russian Public Language / O. Kharkhordin
Can we trace attempts taken in Russian history to overcome the inability to speak publicly? How do different social groups in modern Russia cope with situations when they have to participate in a public discussion and arrive at a compromise? What historical, sociological, linguistic and psychological reasons underlie intolerance towards different opinions? Can this situation be changed? Bringing together an international team of leading historians, sociolinguists and sociologists in this field, this volume explores these questions from different methodological perspectives, using various sets of data and examining the different domains of private, public and official discourses. Offering detailed case studies of the past and present communicative successes and failures in various social groups, the book explores why Russian society is unable to reach a consensus through dialogue. The first book to offer a detailed exploration of the condition of public debate in Russia, this pioneering volume presents a truly interdisciplinary perspective on Russian language and society, making it essential reading for advanced students and specialists in the fields of Slavic studies, cultural studies, sociolinguistics and Russian history, politics and sociology. Nikolai Vakhtin is Professor of Arctic Social Studies at the European University, St. Petersburg. He has taught courses on linguistics and sociolinguistics at EUSP. Boris Firsov is Researcher Emeritus at the European University, St. Petersburg. One of the deans of Soviet sociology of the 1960s, he was the founder and first Rector of the EUSP
