The Russian Language in Contemporary Conservative Dystopias

The topic of this paper concerns a subgenre of modern prose, namely the linguistic dystopia, by which I mean a depiction of a future (“pessimistically extrapolating contemporary social trends into oppressive and terrifying societies”), in which the dysfunctionality or power potential of language is...

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Published inThe Russian review (Stanford) Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 579 - 588
Main Author BODIN, PER-ARNE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lawrence Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2016
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Subjects
Dystopias
Linguistics
Literary criticism
Politics
Russian language
Russian literature
Slavic Languages
slaviska språk
Utopias
Russia
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Summary:The topic of this paper concerns a subgenre of modern prose, namely the linguistic dystopia, by which I mean a depiction of a future (“pessimistically extrapolating contemporary social trends into oppressive and terrifying societies”), in which the dysfunctionality or power potential of language is thematicized and operationalized by either the narrator, various characters in the novel, or the reader. The focus in the article will be on the mirroring of the development in Russian politics and society of today in the dystopias (or utopias) of Russian conservative authors through language.
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ArticleID:RUSS12103
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ISSN:0036-0341
1467-9434
1467-9434
DOI:10.1111/russ.12103