The paper examines the changes which are underway in the Crimean variety of Russian. Until the events of last year (2014), which saw the “annexation” and/or “re-unification” of Crimea to Russia, the Russian used in the peninsula was subject to a gradual process of divergence from standard Russian. The Russian of Crimea could have been defined as a non-dominant variety of a pluricentric language. The sudden change in language policy and the reinforced prestige of Russian as the main, although not the sole, official language of the peninsula is generating new changes in its status and usage. One can assist at an evident shift between a former pluricentricity of Crimean Russian (C-Russian), which was in many respects not really differentiated from its Ukrainian Russian (U-Russian) counterpart, towards a monocentric model steered by the centre.
Russian in Crimea: from Pluricentricity to Monocentricity
Del Gaudio, Salvatore
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2016-01-01
Abstract
The paper examines the changes which are underway in the Crimean variety of Russian. Until the events of last year (2014), which saw the “annexation” and/or “re-unification” of Crimea to Russia, the Russian used in the peninsula was subject to a gradual process of divergence from standard Russian. The Russian of Crimea could have been defined as a non-dominant variety of a pluricentric language. The sudden change in language policy and the reinforced prestige of Russian as the main, although not the sole, official language of the peninsula is generating new changes in its status and usage. One can assist at an evident shift between a former pluricentricity of Crimean Russian (C-Russian), which was in many respects not really differentiated from its Ukrainian Russian (U-Russian) counterpart, towards a monocentric model steered by the centre.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
