Words Matter

Linguistic Conditions for Democracy in Russia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5081784
AutoresRichard D Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles), Valery I Chervyakov (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology), Pavel B Parshin (0000-0002-0400-9550, Ministry of Science)
Año1995
Volumen54
Número4
Páginas869-895
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2501397
OpenAlexW2330586877
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas43

How does language influence politics? Usually when this question is posed, it is understood to concern relations within a polity among communities whose members speak different languages. Our concern, however, is what contribution politicians' language may make to the choice between authoritarianism or democracy. Of course, we reject any reduction of that determination to language alone.The study of change in political Russian during the Soviet and post-Soviet era has concentrated on the consequences of variation incontent.As Meyer observed, during the Soviet period scholars mainly evaluated the degree to which "routine thinking in terms of the official doctrine ... [exerted] an effect on actions taken or not taken..." Remington called attention to the existence in the Soviet period of "two interdependent but opposed codes," one for "the ritualized world of public life" and the other for private interaction-a difference that, as early as 1960, Tucker had traced back to origins in tsarist Russia

Allegiance · Authoritarianism · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy