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/will be dedicating its 2008 issue (vol. 58) to the issue of "Language
Culture in Contemporary Russia" and would like to invite all scholars
with related research interests to submit articles for consideration. **

The period from 1985 to the present day has brought about dramatic
changes in the shape, sound, structure of Russian, in the role that
language plays in both reflecting and helping shape public discourse,
and in the attitudes that speakers and writers have toward the Russian
national tongue and language change in general. In an effort to explore
the contours and ramifications of these changes, /RLJ /welcomes
submissions from colleagues across disciplines on any aspect of the
following issues, so long as they are addressed in the context of
Russian culture and society from 1985-2008:
Descriptive analyses of language change in cultural, social,
and/or political context;
Infusion of foreign loans into contemporary Russian;
Roles of high (e.g. Church) and low (e.g. colloquial, regional,
dialectal, non-standard, vulgar) registers;
The language of politics and/or politics of language;
Attitudes (popular, intellectual, or official) toward language change;
Creative representations of language change;
The state and fate of the literary language;
Language and/of the mass media;
Language and/of the new media.
Authors interested in submitting articles for double-blind peer review
should send copies of their completed manuscripts, in English or
Russian, using submission guidelines posted at
http://www.russnet.org/rlj, by July 1, 2008. Please address any
questions to rlj@actr.org <mailto:rlj@actr.org.>