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The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century : A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History, Paperback / softback Book

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century : A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History Paperback / softback

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The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and stories that trace their tragic history.

In 1900, there were 100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old shared traditions and oral nature.

Their unity is best manifested in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse.

Different social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful.

The chronological organization of the book and the analysis of powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic Soviet experience.

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