The Functions and Value of Foreign Languages in Eighteenth‐Century Russia

Argent, Gesine; Offord, Derek; Rjéoutski, Vladislav

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“…The origin and brief findings of all studies have been described in the results. One of the studies conducted in the UK determined the influence of policy changes on Russian linguistics and the development of languages in Russian culture, whereby it was found that changes in policies over the year have supported the continuous development of the language and Europeanization (Argent et al, 2015). Horujy and Michelson, (2010) conducted research published by the Cambridge University Press and found that two political stances, including Salvophile and Westerniser in Russia, gave mixed effects on the language in Russia.…”

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“…The policies introduced by Peter the Great to modernize Russia and incorporate European values significantly influenced the trajectory of the development of the language in the country. Subsequently, this political trend influenced multilingualism and bilingualism in the country (Argent et al, 2015). The revolutionary changes in Russia and the rising Western influence led by Peter the Great have influenced the language used in the country.…”

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The Influence of Political Environment on Language and the Development of the Modern Russia

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Madiyeva

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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The present study analyzes the influence of the political environment on language with a focus on how people address strangers in the country. The study is important to assess how the political environment plays a role in influencing changes in expression and conditions of language. The significance and rationale of the study are provided in detail, explaining the purpose and objectives behind the investigation. Similarly, a comprehensive literature review focuses on the language and its significance, linguistics, a historical view of the Russian language, and Russia's political environment. Previous literature associating politics with the evolution of language in Russia and the impact of political changes on the language are discussed in the paper. The study adopted a pragmatist philosophy with a qualitative method to conduct an in-depth analysis of the research phenomenon. A review-based design was adopted, and secondary data sources were used for data collection. The results revealed that language has undergone various changes due history of political changes in the country and Russian became the means of communication in the country. Last, the strength and limitations of the study are included, along with important recommendations and the scope for future studies.

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The Influence of Political Environment on Language and the Development of the Modern Russia

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Madiyeva

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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“…), and continuous contact with native speakers. 102 "Fabricating" a governess, as Gheorgheovici attempted to do, was a cheap and convenient way to imitate the example of a westernized, Romanian elite. The preferred cultural model for the governess in private education was fi rst a French, then German, and then English governess whom writers of autobiographies would recall with respect and aff ection, regarding her as a member of the family.…”

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Educating the Other

Roman

2020

Aspasia

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This article explores the role of foreign governesses in the early nineteenth century in the province of Wallachia, a principality in the southeastern part of present-day Romania and a peripheral territory at the intersection of the Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman empires. It focuses on the professional integration of governesses into Romanian society, exploring their complementary routes of activity, both in private educational networks for the elite and in the emerging educational institutions for girls. Their cultural identities as transnational teachers sometimes collided with local perceptions and employers’ ambitions, and the study sheds light on the different categories of governesses and how they succeeded in keeping up with a certain model for governesses that prevailed in this period.

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Verbal borrowability and turnover rates

Arkhangelskiy

2020

DIA

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Conventional wisdom holds that verbs are more difficult to borrow than nouns. Recent studies have supported this claim, inferring it from the fact that synchronically almost every language studied contains a larger proportion of identifiable borrowings among nouns than among verbs. In this paper, I demonstrate that, while true, there is a logical fallacy in this inference. Using a large diachronic corpus of Russian texts, I show that verbs have lower turnover rates and, consequently, longer life expectancies than nouns, i.e., they are generally more difficult to replace. I argue that this fact alone could theoretically result in the synchronically observed disparities. The hypothesis of cross-linguistically lower verbal turnover rates, which I propose based on these findings, is difficult to verify directly on a large sample of languages. However, it makes a non-trivial prediction, which can be tested more easily. It predicts that if a contact situation lasted for a while, but ceased to exist several centuries ago, the proportion of verbs borrowed during that period and surviving to the present day may equal or exceed the proportion of such borrowings among nouns. The data found in the World Loanword Database (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009) are consistent with this prediction, thus providing evidence in favor of the hypothesis.

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The Functions and Value of Foreign Languages in Eighteenth‐Century Russia

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The Influence of Political Environment on Language and the Development of the Modern Russia

The Influence of Political Environment on Language and the Development of the Modern Russia

Educating the Other

Verbal borrowability and turnover rates

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