Yuri Slovkin. Era of Mercury: Jews in the modern world / Per. from English. S. Ilyina. M.: New Literary Review, 2005. 544 p. The book is written in a living language and with the inevitable humor for the theme, however, well dosed; It is translated in good faith. In it we will find many interesting quotes, a lot of curious facts. In a word, reading is not highlighted, and for a yudophil or sodophob it should be directly exciting.

E. Yu. Protasova. Fennic Russians: Life and use of language. SPb.: Zlatoust, 2004. 308 p. Genre Interview: Features of Russian oral speech in Finland and St. Petersburg / Ed. Marya Leinonon. Tampere: Slavica Tamperansia VI. Tampere University Press, 2004. 232 p. At first glance, there is not so much in common between the two reviewed books.

This release of the OZ journal provides a wide range of views on the subject of linguistics under the general title Society in the Mirror of the Language, presenting an analysis of changes in the Russian language in the last two decades. The changes have taken effect not only in the language’s structure and lexicon, but also in its verbal behavior, and — even more broadly — in the speech environment that we all exist in.

Tired of being a linguist I could not understand why this article was given to me with such difficulty. It would seem that for about ten years I have been regularly writing about the current state of the Russian language, speaking, as it were softer to say, from the perspective of an enlightened linguist [1] .

In order to understand what happens to language in eras of historical cataclysms, we need to consider it not as an abstract system (which is what linguists usually study), but rather as a social tool. The social functioning of language in modern times determines the division of its elements (phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical) into standard and substandard.

The last ten years in Russia has been trying to strengthen its influence on the Russian language, or, more rigidly, to restore control over it that existed in the Soviet years. This control was practically lost along with the disappearance, or at least a change in the status of professions such as a censor, editor, corrector and announcer. The government, in particular, affects the language through laws and through the creation of various tips and federal programs.

Avina Natalya Yulyanovna Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language Methods of Vilnius Pedagogical University Buras Maria Mikhailovna Journalist, translator, currently general director of the Center for Applied Communications.

Publisher and editor-in-chief Tatyana Malkina Chief editor Nikita Sokolov Deputy editor-in-chief Vitaly Kurennoy Ekaterina Mellina Galina Skryabina Editorial Board Vladimir Gurevich Simon Kordonsky Alena Solntseva Alexander Oslon Alexander Filippov Executive Secretary Olga Krzhizhevskaya Editors Mark Greenberg Marina Golubovskaya Natalya Shlenskaya Mark Freidkin Alexander Yarin PR and advertising Natalia Grebeniuk Artist Valery Korshunov Literary editors Anna Vozdvizhenskaya Mark Grinberg

Maxim Kononenko. Vladimir Vladimirovich ™. M.: Hummingbird, 2005. 703 p. Maxim Kononenko (Mr. Parker) is the editor -in -chief of the electronic newspaper Dot.ru, the bourgeois magazine lord actor, the newspaper newspaper, an outstanding programmer, laureate of literature premiums (network). He not only disseminates socially useful information, but also helps the state fight various harmful figures. Remember the story that the writer Vladimir Sorokin fell into?

National idea For a long time, a significant part of domestic intellectuals has been busy searching for a national idea. “Suddenly found,” I thought and looked on the Internet.

The main theme of this number of “domestic notes” is, as far as I can judge, not so much even Russian as such as its fate at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, its future, the possibility of radical changes in its system and in the field of use. This topic is practically boundless, and, of course, it can be interesting not only to professional linguists.

At the end of the twentieth century, the Russian language system experienced a powerful impact of social changes, the most significant of which affected the sphere of economic relations. New phenomena of public life demanded new names. In the process of changes, to one degree or another, linguistic phenomena of several levels were involved - individual lexical units, speech stereotypes, and sociocultural ideas.

Introductory remarks Israel is a country whose inhabitants came from all over the world, they speak different languages, adhere to different traditions in everyday life. There are two state languages ​​in the country: Hebrew (revived by Hebrew) and Arabic.

The view that the Russian language has undergone major changes over the past decade is widespread among all walks of life; most often these changes are assessed as “damage to the tongue.” In this regard, they talk about the influx of foreign language borrowings, the fact that slang and colloquial words have begun to be actively used in the media, about numerous speech errors penetrating into public speech, about the gradual lifting of the taboo on foul language.

The editors of Oz turned to modern Russian writers with a request to answer a number of questions that are directly related to the topic of this number. The initial list of interviewers was very wide, but not everyone responded. We offer answers to readers. 1. It is believed that the Russian language has changed a lot over the past ten to fifteen years. Do you agree with this? What, in your opinion, are these changes consistent? 2. How do you feel about these changes? 3.