Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Cyrillic Transliteration System Adopted in the Book

pp xi-xii

Introduction: The Russian Language, Challenged by Globalisation

pp 1-30

PART I - Russian and Its Legal Status

pp 31-32

1 - International Law, Minority Language Rights and Russian(s) in the ‘Near Abroad’

pp 33-55

2 - The Russian Language in Ukraine: Complicit in Genocide, or Victim of State-Building?

pp 56-78

PART II - Linguistic Perceptions and Symbolic Values

pp 79-80

3 - The Russian Language in Belarus: Language Use, Speaker Identities and Metalinguistic Discourse

pp 81-116

4 - What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular Beliefs Regarding the Social Roles of the Language

pp 117-140

PART III - Russian-Speaking Communities and Identity Negotiations

pp 141-142

5 - Post-Soviet Russian-Speaking Diaspora in Italy: Results of a Sociolinguistic Survey

pp 143-165

6 - Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Acculturation Orientations of Russian Speakers in Estonia

pp 166-188

7 - Linguistic Performance of Russianness among Russian-Israeli Parents: Child-Raising Practices in the Immigrant Community

pp 189-206

PART IV - Language Contact and the Globalisation of Russian

pp 207-208

8 - Similarities and Differences between American-Immigrant Russian of the 1970s and 1980s and Post-Soviet Russian in the Motherland

pp 209-224

9 - Predictors of Pluricentricity: Lexical Divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian

pp 225-246

PART V - Globalisation of Russian as Soft Power

pp 247-248

10 - Russian with an Accent: Globalisation and the Post-Soviet Imaginary

pp 249-281

Index

pp 282-292