Soviet sociolinguistics

[J F Levin]

At 06:39 AM 9/18/2010, you wrote:
>One can think of several more or less good 
>reasons why sociolinguistic research is or has 
>been difficult to conduct in Soviet and 
>post-Soviet Russia.  There is, though, a 
>4-volume study called òÕÓÓËÉÊ ÑÚÙË É ÓÏ×ÅÔÓËÏÅ 
>ÏÂÝÅÓÔ×Ï [Russkij jazyk i sovetskoe 
>obshchestvo], edited by M.V. Panov and published 
>in 1968.  Not quite today's language, perhaps, 
>but from what I remember (I haven't got the 
>volumes to hand), there is a great deal of 
>statistical data of a type which I don't think 
>can be found anywhere else.   And, though there 
>are a number of general surveys of post-Soviet 
>Russian, I am not aware of anything that goes 
>into anything like that level of detail.

I published a review article of two Soviet 
sociolinguistic books.  One had many statistical 
data based on questionnaires of native speakers.  Here is the reference:
  L. P. Krysin & D. N. Shmelev 
(eds.):  Social'no-ling- visticheskie 
issledovanija and J. D. Desheriev:  Social' naja 
lingvistika.  Language in Society, X: 1 (April 1981), 85-96.

Jules Levin
Los Angeles

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