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The Social Dimensions Of Fiction: On The Rhetoric And Function Of Prefacing Novels In The Nineteenth-Century Canadas, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Dec 2009

The Social Dimensions Of Fiction: On The Rhetoric And Function Of Prefacing Novels In The Nineteenth-Century Canadas, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7 188 pages, bibliography, index. Data and analyses of nineteenth-century English- and French-Canadian prefaces to novels with theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study of rhetoric, the sociology of literature, audience research, and genre studies. Copyright of the book was released to Tötösy de Zepetnek by Westdeutscher Verlag in 2003.


The Poetry Of Dragica Rajčić, Holly Fulton Osborn Apr 2009

The Poetry Of Dragica Rajčić, Holly Fulton Osborn

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Slavic Folklore: A Handbook" By N. Kononenko, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Apr 2009

Review Of "Slavic Folklore: A Handbook" By N. Kononenko, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Erasing The Past: Destruction And Preservation Of Cultural Heritage In Former Yugoslavia, Part Ii, Igor Ordev Feb 2009

Erasing The Past: Destruction And Preservation Of Cultural Heritage In Former Yugoslavia, Part Ii, Igor Ordev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Luciano Bianciardi’S Aprire Il Fuoco: On The Function Of Literature In Society, Stefano Giannini Jan 2009

Luciano Bianciardi’S Aprire Il Fuoco: On The Function Of Literature In Society, Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

This is the first article to assess the importance of Luciano Bianciardi’s last novel, Aprire il fuoco [Open Fire!](1969), a work often overlooked, that offers crucial insights into Bianciardi’s commitments to social causes. A so-called “irregular” of 20th-century Italian literary panorama, Luciano Bianciardi (1922-1971) in his Aprire il fuoco discusses his idea of literature as an activity that must aim at assuming the role of ethical guide in societies. In my article, I gloss the often obscure historical and literary references of the novel, and provide a critical assessment of its impact.


Review Of "Stanislavsky And Female Actors: Women In Stanislavsky's Life And Art" By M. Ignatieva, Brian R. Johnson Jan 2009

Review Of "Stanislavsky And Female Actors: Women In Stanislavsky's Life And Art" By M. Ignatieva, Brian R. Johnson

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Beheading First: On Nabokov's Translation Of Lewis Carroll, Victor Fet Jan 2009

Beheading First: On Nabokov's Translation Of Lewis Carroll, Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

Anya v Strane chudes, young Nabokov’s 1923 Russian translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, contains an intentionally shifted statement “beheading first, sentence later” compared to Lewis Carroll’s “sentence first, verdict later”. The shift is fitting for the 1920s children émigré audience.


Verses And Versions, Victor Fet Jan 2009

Verses And Versions, Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

A review of the book: Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Brian Boyd & Stanislav Shvabrin. Harcourt, 2008, 441 pp.

Резюме:

рецензия на книгу набоковских стихотворных переводов, Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Brian Boyd & Stanislav Shvabrin. Harcourt, 2008, 441 pp.


Концепт «Призыв» С Позиции Теории Речевых Актов, Давид Гоциридзе, Марина Алексидзе Jan 2009

Концепт «Призыв» С Позиции Теории Речевых Актов, Давид Гоциридзе, Марина Алексидзе

Russian Language Journal

Конец минувшего столетия был отмечен переходом к новой научной парадигме, что обусловило вовлечение в орбиту интересов лингвистики все более широкого круга явлений, связанных с передачей и восприятием информации в современном обществе. Антропоцентристская парадигма выдвинула в качестве первоочередных задач исследование языка во всем многообразии его связей. На смену семантике и синтактике пришла прагматика, что привело к необходимости вовлечения в сферу интересов лингвистики участников коммуникации, языковые личности, которые участвуют в интерактивной деятельности, реализуют в процессе коммуникации определенные речевые интенции. За языковыми знаками стоит человек, который пытается с их помощью достичь определенной цели, вызвать соответствующую реакцию слушателей. В этой связи особую популярность приобретают …


Slavic Sociolinguistics In North America: Lineage And Leading Edge, Mark Richard Lauersdorf Jan 2009

Slavic Sociolinguistics In North America: Lineage And Leading Edge, Mark Richard Lauersdorf

Linguistics Faculty Publications

This article provides a general overview of North American research in Slavic sociolinguistics from the beginnings of the field at the start of the 1960s up to the present day.  The work of North American scholars published in a selection of journals, series, and special collections, as well as in monographs and dissertations, is reviewed to illustrate the research trends and the overall coverage of languages and sociolinguistic subfields as Slavic sociolinguistics developed and matured in a North American context.  This study is intended to serve as a historical backdrop for the new research presented in this volume, and it …


Pushkin And Gannibal: Ethnic Identity In Imperial Russia, Miriam Grinberg Jan 2009

Pushkin And Gannibal: Ethnic Identity In Imperial Russia, Miriam Grinberg

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

Since his untimely death in 1837, the nineteenth-century romantic writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has been renowned the world over not only for his literary achievements, but also for being a paradigm of "Russianness." However, Pushkin himself was by no means a "pure" Russian. Like many of the inhabitants of the Russian empire during his time, he was borne of a veritable hodgepodge of ethnicities. The most surprising of these is his African ancestry; his great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was an African slave brought to Russia in the early eighteenth century. Remarkably, this same slave became the godson and close confidante …


Russian Icons And American Money, 1928-1938, Wendy Salmond Jan 2009

Russian Icons And American Money, 1928-1938, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

The article explores the marketing tactics and consumer expectations with regards to icons released in the street markets and provincial cities of Soviet Russia and acquired by American collectors from 1928-1938. These icons, including those from Byzantium in the tenth century, were seen as cultural commodities during the Russian revolution and the subsequent socialist construction. The Soviet apparatus Antikvariat was tasked with appraising the icon collections held by the Gosmuzeifond or the State Museum Reserve for exports.


Русская Поэзия Как Hortus Clausus: Случай Леонида Аронзона = Russkaia Poeziia Kak Hortus Clausus: Sluchai Leonida Aronzona, Laura Little, Elena Shvarts Jan 2009

Русская Поэзия Как Hortus Clausus: Случай Леонида Аронзона = Russkaia Poeziia Kak Hortus Clausus: Sluchai Leonida Aronzona, Laura Little, Elena Shvarts

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Epistemical And Ethical Troubles In Achieving Reconciliation, And Then Beyond, Rory J. Conces Jan 2009

Epistemical And Ethical Troubles In Achieving Reconciliation, And Then Beyond, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

My optimism towards reconciliation in places like Bosnia and Kosovo has become increasingly guarded because of certain epistemical and ethical issues. Reconciliation presumes the making of moral judgments about a wrongdoing, judgments that are empirically informed. If the perceptual judgments that are used to do the informing are made suspect because of a lapse in the commonplace self-restraints (or controls) on reasoning or glitches in the regulative ideals or epistemic goods like understanding and intelligibility, then the moral judgments on which they are grounded become suspect as well. This happens to both fanatic and non-fanatic. In this article I explore …


Очерк Языковой Политики И Языковой Ситуации В Казахстане, Элеонора Сулейменова Jan 2009

Очерк Языковой Политики И Языковой Ситуации В Казахстане, Элеонора Сулейменова

Russian Language Journal

Наступил завершающий этап выполнения «Государственной программы развития и функционирования языков в Республике Казахстан (2001‐2010 гг.)» – документа, на десятилетие определившего стратегию, приоритеты и основные направления языковой политики1, охарактеризованной стремлением соответствовать потребностям полиэтнического населения страны, учитывать особенности языковой, демографической и политической ситуации, сохранить стабильность межэтнических и межъязыковых отношений. Целью языковой политики стало целенаправленное воздействие на главные составляющие языковой ситуации (сложившейся еще в советский период, когда языковая политика была частью общегосударственной политики по созданию советского народа с единым русским языком), языковое планирование стало осуществляться по трем стратегическим направлениям: расширение сфер употребления и функций государственного языка, сохранение функций русского языка, развитие других языков …


Языковая Политика И Языковая Ситуация В Кыргызстане, Замира Дербишева Jan 2009

Языковая Политика И Языковая Ситуация В Кыргызстане, Замира Дербишева

Russian Language Journal

Конец XX века и начало XXI века ознаменовались новым взглядом на языки. События этих лет, исторически значимых не только для Кыргызстана, но и для всех стран постсоветского пространства с точки зрения интенсивных социально‐политических, экономических, культурных, идеологических процессов в обществе являются экстралингвистическими предпосылками для изменений в языковой ситуации в каждой республике.


Introduction To Volume 59 Jan 2009

Introduction To Volume 59

Russian Language Journal

The present volume of Russian Language Journal offers a rich selection of new research and studies in all three of the Journal’s major areas of focus: language policy, research on the study and teaching of Russian as a foreign or second language, and original research.


The Actr Nationwide Survey Of Russian Language Instruction In U.S. High Schools In 2009, Dan E. Davidson, Nadra Garas Jan 2009

The Actr Nationwide Survey Of Russian Language Instruction In U.S. High Schools In 2009, Dan E. Davidson, Nadra Garas

Russian Language Journal

Adequate access to extended sequences of instruction across a range of world languages in the U.S. K‐12 system can provide the “early start” in language learning, which is essential for a new generation of Americans who will compete in the highly globalized economy of the 21st century.2 The study of Arabic, Chinese Japanese, Persian, and Russian have attracted particular attention among U.S. policymakers, given the importance of these and other major world languages for long‐term U.S. national security interests, scientific and cultural exchange, mutual understanding, and the preservation of U.S. economic competitiveness around the world.


Родной Язык Нетитульного Населения Страны Как Язык Высшего Образования (Русскоязычная Вертикаль Образования В Республике Молдова), Татьяна Млечко Jan 2009

Родной Язык Нетитульного Населения Страны Как Язык Высшего Образования (Русскоязычная Вертикаль Образования В Республике Молдова), Татьяна Млечко

Russian Language Journal

Вопросы, связанные с родным языком, по‐особому актуальны для государств с многонациональным и соответственно разноязычным населением, которое заинтересовано, с одной стороны, в сохранении этнических языков как основы своей национально‐культурной идентичности, с другой – в свободном владении языком или языками, доминирующими в социуме и/или в практике международного общения.


The Online Proficiency‐Based Reading, Listening, And Integrated Writing External Assessment Program For Russian: A Report To The Field, Saodat I. Bazarova, Maria D. Lekic, Camelot Marshall Jan 2009

The Online Proficiency‐Based Reading, Listening, And Integrated Writing External Assessment Program For Russian: A Report To The Field, Saodat I. Bazarova, Maria D. Lekic, Camelot Marshall

Russian Language Journal

Rising interest in the U.S. in the study and teaching of Russian language and culture, reported elsewhere in the present volume (Davidson & Garas, 2009), has coincided with the reaffirmation of the status of Russian by U. S. government agencies as a critical language. Russian is identified, for example, in the 2006 National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) as a “critical need language,” for which the production of greater numbers of advanced‐level speakers is deemed essential (U.S. Department of Education, 2008, p. 1). According to the most recent ADFL/MLA report on language enrollments in two‐ and four‐year U.S. institutions of higher …


Mind The Gap: English L2 Learners Of Russian And The Null Possessive Pronoun, William Comer Jan 2009

Mind The Gap: English L2 Learners Of Russian And The Null Possessive Pronoun, William Comer

Russian Language Journal

The personal possessive pronouns in Russian (мой, твой, наш, ваш, его, её, их) are taught very early in virtually all elementary textbooks of the language. At the point of their introduction, the problems that they most often pose for English‐speaking L2 learners are their morphology and the rules for agreement with the nouns they modify. For L2 learners, the usage and frequency of these pronouns at this stage in language study seem virtually to mirror English patterns. When introduced to simple sentences with finite verbs and complements as well as the “у кого есть что” construction, learners may (or may …


О Месте Творческого Или «Креативного» Потенциала Русского Языка В Практике Преподавания Русского Языка Как Иностранного, Екатерина Москвер Jan 2009

О Месте Творческого Или «Креативного» Потенциала Русского Языка В Практике Преподавания Русского Языка Как Иностранного, Екатерина Москвер

Russian Language Journal

Креативные или творческие возможности языка уже давно привлекают как теоретиков, так и практиков‐методистов. Традиционный анализ креативного языка ведет свое начало от работ русских формалистов, особенно Р. Якобсона, который рассматривал поэтическую функцию языка как центральную в литературном языке (Якобсон 1975), и В. Шкловского, определявшего цель искусства как «дать ощущение вещи как видение, а не как узнавание», то есть как остраненное видение, служащее свежему, необычному взгляду на привычные повседневные вещи (Шкловский 1929: 11‐13). Обсуждая вопрос о языковой креативности, некоторые исследователи вплоть до недавного времени придерживались мнения о том, что поэтический язык и повседневная речь являются противоположностя‐ ми (Widdowson 1992, Bauman and Briggs …


Особенности Обучения Американских Учащихся Интонационному Оформлению Речи На Русском Языке, Ольга Рябова Jan 2009

Особенности Обучения Американских Учащихся Интонационному Оформлению Речи На Русском Языке, Ольга Рябова

Russian Language Journal

Основной целью изучения любого иностранного языка, в том числе и русского, безусловно, является формирование и развитие навыков общения на изучаемом языке. Однако для того, чтобы общение было полноценным, учащийся должен овладеть комплексом знаний и умений, которые позволят ему грамотно и понятно выражать свои мысли на иностранном языке. Как при развитии навыков устной, так и при развитии навыков письменной речи одним из важнейших является навык интонационного оформления речи на русском языке. Интонация пронизывает текст, письменный или устный, и её правильное использование позволяет студенту не только избежать коммуникативных неудач, но и быть точно понятым носителем языка.


Birth Language Attrition And Reacquisition In Russian Adoptees, Avram J. Lyon Jan 2009

Birth Language Attrition And Reacquisition In Russian Adoptees, Avram J. Lyon

Russian Language Journal

The wave of adoption from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union has brought a large number of incomplete Russian speakers into the United States; over 71,000 orphans from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus have been issued United States entry visas since 1992 (U.S. Department of State 2007 and 2009; Ruggiero 2007). This is part of a larger trend toward international adoption, amounting to several hundred thousand children in the past decades. Children adopted by American families experience a radical reduction in birth language exposure and must quickly acclimate to and become proficient in the language of the …


Form And Function Of Expressive Morphology: A Case Study Of Russian, Olga Steriopolo Jan 2009

Form And Function Of Expressive Morphology: A Case Study Of Russian, Olga Steriopolo

Russian Language Journal

In this paper, I conduct a detailed case study of expressive suffixes in Russian. Although the suffixes under investigation have the same function (expressive), they differ significantly in their formal properties. I identify two major semantic types of expressive suffixes: attitude suffixes, which convey the speaker’s attitude toward the referent, and size suffixes, which both convey the speaker’s attitude and refer to the size of the referent. I argue that the two different semantic types map onto different syntactic types. Attitude suffixes are syntactic heads, while size suffixes are syntactic modifiers. As heads, attitude suffixes determine the formal properties (syntactic …


Full Issue Jan 2009

Full Issue

Russian Language Journal

No abstract provided.