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

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The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century
The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
The Language of Russian Peasants as a Social Dialect
	1.2 Peasant language before 1917
	1.3 Examples from Bogoraz, Tenishev
	1.4 An Initial Generalization: The Peasant Language Profile
	1.5 A longer story from 1925
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 2
The Impact of the Revolution
	2.2 Letters to power: long history pre-1905
	2.3 The Revolution of 1905 and New Kinds of Letters
	2.4 Linguistic Background: Phraseology, Formulaic Language
	2.5 Revolution and civil war, 1917–1921
	2.6 Bolshevik Innovations and Peasant Attitudes
	2.7 Available Peasant Materials, 1917–1921–1928
	2.8 Directions of change
	2.9 Categories and examples
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 3
Personal Letters, 1939–1940
	3.2 Letters to the Army and Peasant “Moods”
	3.3 Personal Letters as a Genre: Tradition, Structure, and Formal Elements
	3.4 The Source and the Historical Background
	3.5 Examples of Letters 1: Three Generations
	3.6 Examples of Letters 2: Old People
	3.7 Examples of Letters 3: Recent Peasants and Some Success Stories
	3.8 The Defining Features of Peasant Letters
	3.9 On Literacy and Letters from Schoolchildren
	3.10 Discourse and Pragmatic Features
	3.11 Overlap and Interpenetration with Other Social Groups
	3.12 Vocabulary, syntax, phraseology
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 4
Scholars and Narratives from the 1950s to Today
	4.2 Biographic narratives as historical testimony
	4.3 Examples, Grouped by History
	4.4 The Linguistics of Peasant Narratives
	Conclusions: The Unity of Peasant Language
	Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author