The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century by ... - 9781498575058

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth CenturyA Linguistic Analysis and Oral History\nAuthor(s): Alexander D. Nakhimovsky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498575058, 978-1498575058\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\nIn 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. \nDifferent soc.