Ser russo em São Paulo: os imigrantes russos e a (re)formulação de identidade após a Revolução Bolchevique de 1917

Ruseishvili, Svetlana

doi:10.11606/t.8.2017.tde-13022017-124015

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“…The history of Russophone immigration to Brazil is described in a number of dissertations, theses and books (BYTSENKO, 2006;CHNEE, 2016;HIGA, 2015;RUSEISHVILI, 2016;VOROBIEFF, 2006;ZABOLOTSKY, 1998). The first immigrants from the Russian Empire arrived in Brazil at the turn of the 19 th century to the 20 th ; most of them were Russian German and religious minorities immigrants, such as Old Believers (BYTSENKO, 2006).…”

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Braporus, spoken corpus of heritage russian in Brazil

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Heritage speakers represent a special category of bilinguals who are exposed to their first language at home in the childhood, but later acquire the main language of their society that becomes dominant. Brazil has numerous communities of heritage speakers of many languages such as Japanese, German, Italian, Polish, and Ukrainian; however, only few speech corpora are being collected. In the current work, we describe the protocol of the data collection and discuss some points about data management for the BraPoRus (Brazilian Portuguese-Russian) corpus, a spoken corpus of heritage Russian in Brazil. The participants are 26 elderly speakers who were born in Brazil or came to Brazil as children in the 1950s. The protocol of the data collection includes: 1) a brief sociodemographic questionnaire; 2) a working memory test in Russian and Brazilian Portuguese using the Month-Ordering task; 3) a semi-spontaneous narrative about the history of the participants’ family and their immigration to Brazil; 4) the Bilingual Language Profile; 5) a sociolinguistic interview with 139 questions; 6) unscripted dialogues between participants in Russian; 7) intonation task; and 8) reading task. The BraPoRus corpus contains more than 160 hours of speech recordings and represents a unique collection of heritage Russian in Brazil. We expect that the protocol described in this work will be useful both for Brazilian linguists who study other heritage languages, and for research on heritage Russian in other countries.

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“…Russian "white" stateless refugees from China; 4) since 1991: the contemporary immigration initially stimulated mainly by economic reasons (RUSEISHVILI, 2016;RUSEISHVILI, 2019;SKOROBOGATOVA et al, 2021;VOROBYEVA;ALESHKOVSKI;GREBENYUK, 2018).…”

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“…Migration of Russian-speaking people to other countries presents a special interest since the beginning of the 20th century when the wars and Bolshevik Revolution induced significant migrant waves (Ruseishvili 2016). Brazil was one of the destinations for these migrants, and this provides unique opportunities for studies of heritage Russian (Sekerina et al 2023;Skorobogatova et al 2021;Smirnova Henriques et al 2022).…”

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L1–L2 Influence in Intonation: A Case of Russophone Immigrants in Brazil

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Smirnova Henriques

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This paper is devoted to the features of sentence prosody (intonation) in Brazilian Portuguese spoken by immigrants whose first language is Russian, and explores the consequences that L1–L2 influence in intonation may have for communication. The study addressed four research questions: (1) Do Brazilian Portuguese L2 speakers with Russian L1 always succeed in producing the correct utterance type? (2) Can L1–L2 influence lead to misunderstanding of connotations? (3) Is it possible that sometimes L1–L2 influence leads to being perceived as too emotional or not emotional enough? (4) Can L1–L2 influence in intonation be a significant factor in the perception of accent? In a perceptual experiment, productions of four target utterances in Brazilian Portuguese by Russian L1 and Brazilian Portuguese L1 speakers were evaluated by 124 Brazilian listeners in terms of sentence type, possible connotations, accent and arousal. The target utterances included three questions of different types and an exclamation. The findings revealed that the speaker’s L1 influenced the perception of prosodic meanings by Brazilian listeners. In some cases, interference from Russian melodic contours caused the incorrect identification of the sentence type in Brazilian Portuguese. However, even when sentence type was perceived correctly, differences could be found regarding the perception of arousal or accent.

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“…In the post-World War II period, many Soviet Displaced Persons (DPs) and the families of the "white" Russian community in Europe also arrived to Brazil. In the 1950s, it was the turn of the Russian "white" stateless refugees from China [7]. Rough estimate based on the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics 1950 census [8] is that 1,500 of these Russophone immigrants from China could be still alive.…”

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Challenges in Heritage Language Documentations: BraPoRus, Spoken Corpus of Heritage Russian in Brazil

Henriques¹,

Skorobogatova²,

Ruseishvili³

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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021

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The Bolshevik revolution in 1917, followed by the Civil War, induced a big wave of emigration from the ex-Russian Empire. These emigrants created their “Russia Abroad”. Many Russians stayed in Europe or China, but, in the 1940s and 1950s, many of them went to the USA, Latin America and other destinations. The importance of preserving the memories and documents of the old waves of the Russian emigration is crucial. Our group is collecting a corpus of heritage Russian in Brazil, the BRAzilian POrtuguese RUSsian Corpus (BraPoRus). While the history of Russian immigration in Brazil is to some extent studied, their remarkably preserved Russian has not been described. Our current aim is to describe the BraPoRus, a corpus that consists of multiple speech samples of older Russian heritage speakers in Brazil, and to discuss the best ways to make these data available in the forms that satisfy the requirements both for the linguistic and sociological research.

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Ser russo em São Paulo: os imigrantes russos e a (re)formulação de identidade após a Revolução Bolchevique de 1917

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Braporus, spoken corpus of heritage russian in Brazil

Braporus, spoken corpus of heritage russian in Brazil

L1–L2 Influence in Intonation: A Case of Russophone Immigrants in Brazil

Challenges in Heritage Language Documentations: BraPoRus, Spoken Corpus of Heritage Russian in Brazil

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