Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World

Contents: Irina Zak/Arie Cohen: Explicit/implicit acculturation and adaptation among Russian immigrant teachers in Israel - Martin Ehala/Anastassia Zabrodskaja: Ethnolinguistic vitality of ethnic groups in the Baltic countries - Mikhail A. Molchanov: Russian national identity: old traumas and new challenges - Svetlana Eriksson: Who are you? Cultural associations in (self-)othering and cultural identity negotiation among Russian-speaking adolescents from Russia and Latvia in Ireland - Claudia Zbenovich: The Russian-Jewish babushka in Israel: discourse analysis of a cultural phenomenon - Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa: Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-Soviet migrants - German Mendzheritskiy/Ekaterina Bagreeva: Should we speak Russian? Everyday practice of Russian-speaking migrants in Germany and Norway - Sari Pöyhönen: Language and ethnicity lost and found: multiple identities of Ingrian Finnish teachers in Russia - Dionysios Zoumpalidis: Russian language - Greek identity: a sociolinguistic approach to the Pontic Greek community in Russia - Sholpan Zharkynbekova/Baurzhan Bokayev: Global transformations in Kazakhstani society and problems of ethno-linguistic identification - Jasmine Dum-Tragut: Striving for linguistic independence? The Armenian language in post-Soviet Armenia: language policy and language planning.

Sarah Smyth is a Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is co-author of RUS': A Comprehensive Course in Russian (2002), Basic Russian, A Grammar and Workbook (first edition 1999, second edition 2013) and Intermediate Russian, A Grammar and Workbook (first edition 2001, second edition 2013).
Conny Opitz is a teaching assistant in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Her current research focuses on applying dynamic systems and complexity theory to language development. She is co-editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism on 'Dynamics of First Language Attrition across the Lifespan' (2013). She has also co-edited an issue of Irish Slavonic Studies (2012).