Political Correctness in Russia

[Gorham,Michael S]

Though references to it are out there, I don’t think “PC” has really taken root in Russia, for a variety of reasons. This being said, you can find one discussion of it — specifically in connection to alternatives to ‘invalid’ (‘chelovek s ogranichennymi vozmozhnostiami’?) -- in Marina Koroleva’s blog spinoff of “Govorim po-russki” (which includes some good folk-linguistic comments in response):

http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/markorol/524888-echo.phtml

And then discussed during their 6 July 2008 broadcast (archived at:)

http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/speakrus/archive/9.html

Seems to me the rise in the use of “rossiiskii”/”rossiiane” (in place of “russkii”/“russkie”) in the 1990s could also be viewed through the PC lens, though here I’d also be careful....

A quote from the Tolstaia piece cited by Alina, I think, is instructive — “Умение прозревать в языке следы угнетения  со  стороны  эксплуататоров достигло в академических кругах Америки виртуозности” -- at least as far as the skepticism on the Russian side of the equation goes....


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On 12/2/08 11:41 PM, "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU> wrote:

http://lib.ru/PROZA/TOLSTAYA/p_politcorr.txt

And in general google политкорректность, you'll find a lot of
interesting stuff.

Also scholar.google.com give a lot on the same search:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%
BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C
+&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search

AI

On Dec 2, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Edie Furniss wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I'm currently doing research on political correctness in the Russian
> language and would greatly appreciate any suggestions of possible
> resources
> on its history, usage, comparison with American political
> correctness, as
> well as ways of teaching/discussing this topic in the Russian language
> classroom.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Edie Furniss
> MA Candidate Teaching a Foreign Language - Russian
> Monterey Institute of International Studies '10
>
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