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Abstract

Standard language is conceptualized as linguistic capital, in terms of Pierre Bourdieu's soci- ology. The Twentieth century in Russia was an epoch of revolutions; linguistic developments in revolutionary and post-revolutionary situations may be efficiently analyzed as transformations of linguistic capital: the old linguistic capital is discredited in the course of a cultural revolution and revolutionary linguistic usage becomes new linguistic capital. This process is characterized in Russia (from 1910throughto the 1920s and again in the 1980s and 1990s) by the extensive use ofborrow- ings, vulgar and jargon words, obscene expressions. The end of cultural revolutions is accompanied by the emergence of a new elite and by partial restoration of the old linguistic capital; it is appropri- ated by the new elite and adjusted to their demands. The article describes two cycles of these devel- opments in the period from 1917 up to the present. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
Il capitale linguistico e la sue trasformazioni nella storia linguistica del secolo scorso
Author
Zivov, Viktor
Pages
71-84,340
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
ISSN
1824761X
e-ISSN
18247601
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
1430958136
Copyright
Copyright Firenze University Press 2012