Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Russian English as a Variety: 1. Russian and English contact: past and present Anna A. Eddy and Zoya G. Proshina; 2. Russian English in the family of World Englishes Zoya G. Proshina; 3. Russian English linguaculture Zoya G. Proshina, Alexandra Rivlina, Svetlana Ter-Minasova, Elena Beloglazova and Victor Kabakchi; 4. Linguistic features of Russian English Victoria Zavyalova, Zoya G. Proshina, Anna Ionina, Anna A. Eddy and Tatiana Ivankova; Part II. Domains of English Use in Russia: 5. Politics Tatiana Ivankova and Elena Salakyan; 6. Business Irina Krykova and Olesya Lazaretnaya; 7. Education Galina Lovtsevich; 8. Scholarship Elena Lawrick; 9. Mass media Anna A. Eddy, Tatiana Ivankova and Elena Lawrick; 10. Tourism Olesya Lazaretnaya; 11. Pop culture and social groups Anna A. Eddy; 12. Advertising Irina Ustinova; 13. Literature Evgenia Butenina; Part III. Attitudes of Russian Speakers Toward Russian English: 14. Competition with Russian as an international language Irina Ustinova; 15. Linguistic purism Olesya Lazaretnaya; 16. Resistance to and gain in the World Englishes paradigm Zoya G. Proshina and Irina Ustinova; 17. Awareness of English as a secondary means for self-identity Maria Lebedko; Afterword Zoya G. Proshina.

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A fascinating discussion of Russian English as a World English variety and its function in politics, business and culture.

About the Author

Zoya G. Proshina, Doctor of Philology (Habil.), is a Professor at the Moscow State University. Her research interests include World Englishes, sociolinguistics, translation studies and intercultural communication. She was guest-editor of a special issue of the World Englishes journal on Russian Englishes and has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education, and Communicating with Asia (Cambridge, 2016). She is the sole author of Crossroads: English-Russian Dictionary of East Asian Culture Contacts (2004), The ABC and Controversies of World Englishes (2007), and Theory of Translation: English–Russian, Russian–English (2008). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of World Englishes. In 2011–12 she was President of the International Association for World Englishes. Anna A. Eddy holds a position of an Assessment Specialist at the English Language Program at the University of Michigan, Flint. She obtained a Ph.D. in Modern Languages from Wayne State University, Michigan with the focus on sociolinguistics of World Englishes. Her research interests include the use of English in non-native contexts, teaching of English as a global language, second language methodologies and curriculum design. She serves as a site reviewer for the Commission on English Language Accreditation and as a Vice President-Elect for Standards at EnglishUSA.