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050 4 $aPG2074.75$b.C54 2016
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100 1 $aCheskin, Ammon,$eauthor.
245 10 $aRussian speakers in post-Soviet Latvia :$bdiscursive identity strategies /$cAmmon Cheskin.
264 1 $aEdinburgh :$bEdinburgh University Press,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $axiv, 230 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aRussian language and society
520 $a"The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35% of the population are native Russian speakers. At a time when analysts and commentators are unsure about Russia's future plans to intervene on behalf of their 'compatriots', this study provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of Russian-speaking identity in Latvia. By using Russian-speakers in Latvia as a specific case study, this volume also offers a fresh methodological approach to the study of discourses and discursive strategies. It outlines a coherent methodology to study the evolution of discourses over time, rather than a single de-contextualized and static time period. Drawing on media analysis, elite interviews, focus groups and survey data, Russian Speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia situates the identity strategies of Russian speakers within the political, cultural, and economic transformations of the post-Soviet era. By assessing political, cultural, and economic links with their home state (Latvia) and their potential kin-state (Russia), it offers important insights into the complex identity positions of Latvia's Russian speakers, and how these positions have evolved in Latvia since the late Soviet period"--Back cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 210-223) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Discourse, memory, and identity -- Latvian state and nation-building -- Russian-language media and identity formation -- Examining Russian-speaking identity from below -- The "democratisation of history" and generational change -- The primacy of politics? Political discourse and identity formation -- The Russian Federation and Russian-speaking identity in Latvia -- A bright future?
650 0 $aRussian language$xSocial aspects$zLatvia.
650 0 $aAnthropological linguistics.
651 0 $aLatvia$xEthnic relations.
650 7 $aAnthropological linguistics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810178
650 7 $aEthnic relations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00916005
650 7 $aRussian language$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01102235
651 7 $aLatvia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210821
830 0 $aRussian language and society.
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