Arkiv for nyheder om 'russisk'
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Efter dansk, italiensk, estisk og 20 andre sprog er russisk måske på vej til at blive et nyt officielt tungemål i EU. Letland afgør det i dag, og det skaber ophedet debat
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Sproget er meget overset, selv om vi bruger det hele tiden - ikke kun til at kommunikere med, men samtidig som et spejl på den verden som omgiver os og som brillerne vi har på, når vi ser på den. Bogen giver interessante eksempler på hvordan kultur og mentalitet hænger intimt sammen med sproget. Sprogets mange forbindelseslinjer til genstande, situationer, perception, kognition, kommunikation og semiotik er ikke det samme på alle sprog. Sprog deler sig i tre supertyper kaldet virkeligheds-, afsender- og modtager-orienterede sprog. Bogen handler altså om hvordan sproget fungerer, dvs. materien midt imellem gramatikken og litteraturen.
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A national referendum on whether Russian should become Latvia’s second official language is set for Feb. 18, the Central Election Commission announced Jan. 3 in Rīga.
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As noted in a number of previous postings (see here and here), recently more and more non-linguists come out with research involving language. And very often, whether it's biologists, physicists or economists that make claims about language, they lack the background to understand the linguistic issues they comment or rely on. Speaking of economists making claims about language, here's one recent example.
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The problem of the status of Russian emerged in 1991 when the Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - withdrew from the USSR and became independent. The new constitutions of these countries defined that the language of the “title nation” (Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian) should be given the status of the official language. Nothing was said about the status of Russian. More than that - the authorities did everything to limit its use.
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This month an advertisement campaign that may puzzle foreign observers was launched in Minsk. Advertising company “Belzneshreklama” began to advertise Belarusian language. A population census in 2009 showed that only 30% of Belarusians speak Belarusian every day.
