Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Cyrillic Transliteration System Adopted in the Book xi
5. Introduction: The Russian Language, Challenged by Globalisation 1
6. Part I: Russian and Its Legal Status
7. Part I: Russian and Its Legal Status 1. International Law, Minority Language Rights and Russian(s) in the ‘Near Abroad’ 33
8. 2. The Russian Language in Ukraine: Complicit in Genocide, or Victim of State-Building? 56
9. Part II: Linguistic Perceptions and Symbolic Values
10. 3. The Russian Language in Belarus: Language Use, Speaker Identities and Metalinguistic Discourse 81
11. 4. What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular Beliefs Regarding the Social Roles of the Language 117
12. Part III: Russian-Speaking Communities and Identity Negotiations
13. 5. Post-Soviet Russian-Speaking Diaspora in Italy: Results of a Sociolinguistic Survey 143
14. 6. Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Acculturation Orientations of Russian Speakers in Estonia 166
15. 7. Linguistic Performance of Russianness among Russian- Israeli Parents: Child-Raising Practices in the Immigrant Community 189
16. Part IV: Language Contact and the Globalisation of Russian
17. 8. Similarities and Differences between American-Immigrant Russian of the 1970s and 1980s and Post-Soviet Russian in the Motherland 209
18. 9. Predictors of Pluricentricity: Lexical Divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian 225
19. Part V: Globalisation of Russian as Soft Power
20. 10. Russian with an Accent: Globalisation and the Post-Soviet Imaginary 249
21. Index 282