Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Professor of Russian and Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She works in several fields within Russian language studies: sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, metaphorical studies, language policy, and the nexus between language, ideology and identity.

• Introduction: the Russian language, challenged by globalisation, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; Part I: Russian and its legal status; The legal status of Russian and Russian speakers in the near abroad, Michael Newcity; The Russian language in Ukraine: complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building?, Bill Bowring; Part II: Linguistic perceptions and symbolic values; The Russian language in Belarus: language use, speaker identities and metalinguistic discourse, Curt Woolhiser; What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular beliefs regarding the social roles of the language, Volodymyr Kulyk; Part III: Russian speaking communities and identity negotiations; Post-Soviet Russian-speaking diaspora in Italy: results of an empirical sociolinguistic survey, Monica Perotto; Ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation orientations of Russian-speakers in Estonia, Martin Ehala and Anastassia Zabrodskaja; Linguistic performance of ‘Russianness’ among Russian-Israeli parents: discourse analysis of child-raising practices in immigrant community, Claudia Zbenovich; Part IV: Language contact and globalisation of Russian; Similarities and differences between American-immigrant Russian of the 1970s and ‘80s and post-Soviet Russian in the Motherland, David Andrews; Predictors of pluricentricity: lexical divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian, Alexandr Berdichevskis; Part V: Globalisation of Russian as soft power; Russian with an accent: globalisation and post-Soviet imaginary, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; Index

Making an important contribution to emerging sociolinguistics of globalisation, this wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection explores political and demographic causes of unprecedented expansion of Russian in the globalised world. This volume offers intriguing insights into legal, social, economic, and sociolinguistic complexities of the ongoing transformation of the Russian linguasphere.

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Professor of Russian and Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She works in several fields within Russian language studies: sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, metaphorical studies, language policy, and the nexus between language, ideology and identity.

• Introduction: the Russian language, challenged by globalisation, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; Part I: Russian and its legal status; The legal status of Russian and Russian speakers in the near abroad, Michael Newcity; The Russian language in Ukraine: complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building?, Bill Bowring; Part II: Linguistic perceptions and symbolic values; The Russian language in Belarus: language use, speaker identities and metalinguistic discourse, Curt Woolhiser; What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular beliefs regarding the social roles of the language, Volodymyr Kulyk; Part III: Russian speaking communities and identity negotiations; Post-Soviet Russian-speaking diaspora in Italy: results of an empirical sociolinguistic survey, Monica Perotto; Ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation orientations of Russian-speakers in Estonia, Martin Ehala and Anastassia Zabrodskaja; Linguistic performance of ‘Russianness’ among Russian-Israeli parents: discourse analysis of child-raising practices in immigrant community, Claudia Zbenovich; Part IV: Language contact and globalisation of Russian; Similarities and differences between American-immigrant Russian of the 1970s and ‘80s and post-Soviet Russian in the Motherland, David Andrews; Predictors of pluricentricity: lexical divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian, Alexandr Berdichevskis; Part V: Globalisation of Russian as soft power; Russian with an accent: globalisation and post-Soviet imaginary, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; Index

Making an important contribution to emerging sociolinguistics of globalisation, this wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection explores political and demographic causes of unprecedented expansion of Russian in the globalised world. This volume offers intriguing insights into legal, social, economic, and sociolinguistic complexities of the ongoing transformation of the Russian linguasphere.

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Professor of Russian and Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She works in several fields within Russian language studies: sociocultural linguistics, discourse analysis, metaphorical studies, language policy, and the nexus between language, ideology and identity.

• Introduction: the Russian language, challenged by globalisation, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; Part I: Russian and its legal status; The legal status of Russian and Russian speakers in the near abroad, Michael Newcity; The Russian language in Ukraine: complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building?, Bill Bowring; Part II: Linguistic perceptions and symbolic values; The Russian language in Belarus: language use, speaker identities and metalinguistic discourse, Curt Woolhiser; What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular beliefs regarding the social roles of the language, Volodymyr Kulyk; Part III: Russian speaking communities and identity negotiations; Post-Soviet Russian-speaking diaspora in Italy: results of an empirical sociolinguistic survey, Monica Perotto; Ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation orientations of Russian-speakers in Estonia, Martin Ehala and Anastassia Zabrodskaja; Linguistic performance of ‘Russianness’ among Russian-Israeli parents: discourse analysis of child-raising practices in immigrant community, Claudia Zbenovich; Part IV: Language contact and globalisation of Russian; Similarities and differences between American-immigrant Russian of the 1970s and ‘80s and post-Soviet Russian in the Motherland, David Andrews; Predictors of pluricentricity: lexical divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian, Alexandr Berdichevskis; Part V: Globalisation of Russian as soft power; Russian with an accent: globalisation and post-Soviet imaginary, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke; Index

Making an important contribution to emerging sociolinguistics of globalisation, this wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection explores political and demographic causes of unprecedented expansion of Russian in the globalised world. This volume offers intriguing insights into legal, social, economic, and sociolinguistic complexities of the ongoing transformation of the Russian linguasphere.