History of Russian Literary Language

[yasuo URAI]

Dear SEELANGERs

  I am a new subscriber to this mailing-list, and I am afraid that the
following theme has been already discussed. If so, please, teach me the time of
the discussion.

  I am much interested in the discipline of "History of Russian Literary
(Standard) Language (Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka)". I would like to
know what opinion you have about my remarks concerning this discipline.

  I think that this discipline has the following main subjects:
    1) the origin of Russian language,
    2) the formation of modern Russian literary language.
  I think the first subject hitherto has been being researched quite enough in
academic terms.

  But concerning the second subject, though the theme itself is very
interesting, its treatment seems to be too "didactic" (roughly speaking it
seems to be an illustration of interpretation of language development seen from
the Marxist standpoint). $B!! (JIn parallel with this, the idolization of
 Pushkin was
established.

  I think that the study which has become a starting point in this field is
Vinogradov's "Ocherki po istorii russkogo literaturnogo jazyka XVII - XIX vv.
(1934)".  The 2 years later (1936), B. Havranek (one of the members of Prague
Linguistic Circle) has published "Vyvoj spisovneho jazyka ceskeho (Development
of Czech Literary Language)". If you know any study or information concerning
the relation between these two, let me know, please.


  Sincerely,
                      Yasuo URAI

    urai at edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp