The Soft Power of the Russian Language : Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies (Hardcover)

Part I. Russian as a communicative tool: Lingua franca, intermediator or something else? Chapter 1 The Russian Language away from Metropolis: Challenges of Pluricentric Development Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova, Maria Yelenevskaya Chapter 2 The History of Internationalization of the Russian Language Vladimir M. Alpatov Chapter 3 Democratization of the Russian Language Arto Mustajoki Part II. The Russian-Language Legacy ? Chapter 4 Language Policy in Relation to the Russian Language in Georgia before and after Dissolution of the Soviet Union Kakha Gabunia, Ketevan Gochitashvili Chapter 5 Russian in Armenia: Between Thriving and Surviving Suren T. Zolyan, Karen S. Hakobyan Chapter 6 Russian in Azerbaijan: Changing Practices and Emerging Paradigms Jala Garibova Chapter 7 Variability in the Russian Diaspora Speech of Estonia Jelisaveta Kostandi, Irina Kulmoja, Oksana Palikova Chapter 8 The Russian Language in Latvia?The Historic Linguistic Situation P?vels Jurs, Al?da Samusevi?a Chapter 9 The Russian Language of the Lithuanian Republic as Reflected in Mass Media Discourse Birute Sinochkina Chapter 10 The Russian Language in Belarus and Ukraine Jan Patrick Zeller, Dmitri Sitchinava Chapter 11 The Russian Language in Kazakhstan in the 21st Century Damina Shaibakova Chapter 12 Russian Language in Kyrgyzstan: Status, Functioning and Collisions between Languages Mamed D. Tagaev, Ekaterina Protassova Part III. The Russian-Speaking Diaspora ? Chapter 13 The Russian Language in France: from the Russian Community to the National Education System Irina Kor Chahine Chapter 14 Russian in Germany Katharina Hamann, Kai Witzlack-Makarevich, Nadja Wulff Chapter 15 Russian and its Speakers in Finland Johanna Viimaranta Chapter 16 The Russian Language in Canada Veronika Makarova Chapter 17 The Russian Dialects Outside Russia: The Situation in South America Olga Rovnova Chapter 18 Connected by Digital Imagination: Discourses of Belonging and Community Building of Russophone Migrants in the USA and Great Britain Oksana Morgunova (Petrunko), Renat T. Zinnurov Part IV. New Trends in the Russian Language Teaching ? Chapter 19 Heritage Russian in the US and the New Type of Pluricentricity in the Context of Immigration Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan Chapter 20 Family Language Policy, Russian Language Use, Maintenance and Transmission in Cyprus and Sweden Natalia Ringblom, Sviatlana Karpava Chapter 21 Russian As A Foreign Language Education in Japanese High Schools:A Multilingual Education Policy on the Margin Sachiko Yokoi Horii