TY - BOOK AU - Offord,Derek AU - Argent,Gesine AU - Rjéoutski,Vladislav TI - The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History T2 - Languages and culture in history SN - 9789048532766 U1 - 447.947 PY - 2018///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Bilingualism KW - Russia KW - French language KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - AUP Wetenschappelijk KW - Amsterdam University Press KW - Language and Literature KW - Linguistics KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French KW - bisacsh KW - French KW - Romanticism KW - Russia and the West KW - Russian KW - bilingualism and diglossia KW - history of nobilities KW - language debate KW - nationalism KW - plurilingualism and multilingualism KW - social history of language KW - the Enlightenment N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Presentation of dates, transliteration, and other editorial practices --; Abbreviations used in the notes --; The Romanovs --; Introduction --; Chapter 1: The historical contexts of Russian francophonie --; Chapter 2: Teaching and learning French --; Chapter 3: French at court --; Chapter 4: French in high society --; Chapter 5: French in diplomacy and other official domains --; Chapter 6: Writing French --; Chapter 7: French for cultural propaganda and political polemics --; Chapter 8: Language attitudes --; Chapter 9: Perceptions of bilingualism in the classical Russian novel --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - -- With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau -- The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language by the elites of imperial Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is interdisciplinary, approaching its subject from the angles of various kinds of history and historical sociolinguistics. Beyond its bearing on some of the grand narratives of Russian thought and literature, this book may afford more general insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary implications and effects of bilingualism in a speech community over a long period. It should also enlarge understanding of francophonie as a pan-European phenomenon. On the broadest plane, it has significance in an age of unprecedented global connectivity, for it invites us to look beyond the experience of a single nation and the social groups and individuals within it in order to discover how languages and the cultures and narratives associated with them have been shared across national boundaries UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532766?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048532766 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048532766/original ER -