There are old and new varieties of the Russian language. Having a large dissemination area, it embraces various contact situations with typologically different languages in the process of acquisition and functioning. This has numerous consequences on the psycholinguistic, political, sociolinguistic, educational, and personal levels. The present collection of articles covers these topics in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. The presence of Russian in the world is documented through the facts and artifacts of its historical and contemporary use in the mass media, in the linguistic landscape, in the family, in everyday discourse, in the attitudes of its users, as well as in translation, teaching, and learning.
Slavica Helsingiensia,
published by the Department of Languages at Helsinki University, was founded in 1983. The series includes monographs and collections of articles on linguistic and literary topics.The majority of the doctoral theses prepared in the Department in the field of Slavic languages and literatures have appeared in the series. A certain number of volumes, bearing the sub-heading Studia Russica Helsingiensia at Tartuensia, contain materials from conferences on Russian literature jointly organized by the Universities of Helsinki and Tartu. Further details on the contents of each volume may be found on the website of the series.
