Demokratisierung der russischen Wissenschaftssprache?
Democratization of Russian academic speech?

Summary/Abstract: In linguistic papers on language change it is often stated that the Russian language since the1990s has adapted to the new political, economical and social conditions by reacting in variedways to the changes of the so-called extralinguistic environment. Linguists, however, usuallyconcentrate on the description of phonetical/ phonological, morphological, lexical or syntacticchanges without paying attention to changes of text types. In the present article, by the example ofa study of scientific texts I investigate the process of the democratization of written academic speech from the 1950s up to now. For this purpose, I concentrate on different linguistic means of expressing personalization. As a basis for my diachronic empirical investigation serves a homogeneous corpus of written texts of the type ‘academic article’ in well-known linguistic journals.

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