Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Soviet Linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s and the Scholarly Heritage
- 3 ‘Sociology’ in Soviet Linguistics of the 1920–30s: Shor, Polivanov and Voloshinov
- 4 Theoretical Insights and Ideological Pressures in Early Soviet Linguistics: The Cases of Lev Iakubinskii and Boris Larin
- 5 Early Soviet Linguistics and Mikhail Bakhtin's Essays on the Novel of the 1930s
- 6 Language as a Battlefield – the Rhetoric of Class Struggle in Linguistic Debates of the First Five-Year Plan Period: The Case of E.D. Polivanov vs. G.K. Danilov
- 7 The Tenacity of Forms: Language, Nation, Stalin
- 8 The Word as Culture: Grigorii Vinokur's Applied Language Science
- 9 Language Ideology and the Evolution of Kul'tura iazyka (‘Speech Culture’) in Soviet Russia
- 10 Psychology, Linguistics and the Rise of Applied Social Science in the USSR: Isaak Shpil'rein's Language of the Red Army Soldier
- Appendix 1 Introduction to Japhetidology: Theses, Ivan Meshchaninov
- Appendix 2 Glossary of Names
- Appendix 3 List of Contributors
- Notes
- Index of Names
Appendix 1 - Introduction to Japhetidology: Theses, Ivan Meshchaninov
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Soviet Linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s and the Scholarly Heritage
- 3 ‘Sociology’ in Soviet Linguistics of the 1920–30s: Shor, Polivanov and Voloshinov
- 4 Theoretical Insights and Ideological Pressures in Early Soviet Linguistics: The Cases of Lev Iakubinskii and Boris Larin
- 5 Early Soviet Linguistics and Mikhail Bakhtin's Essays on the Novel of the 1930s
- 6 Language as a Battlefield – the Rhetoric of Class Struggle in Linguistic Debates of the First Five-Year Plan Period: The Case of E.D. Polivanov vs. G.K. Danilov
- 7 The Tenacity of Forms: Language, Nation, Stalin
- 8 The Word as Culture: Grigorii Vinokur's Applied Language Science
- 9 Language Ideology and the Evolution of Kul'tura iazyka (‘Speech Culture’) in Soviet Russia
- 10 Psychology, Linguistics and the Rise of Applied Social Science in the USSR: Isaak Shpil'rein's Language of the Red Army Soldier
- Appendix 1 Introduction to Japhetidology: Theses, Ivan Meshchaninov
- Appendix 2 Glossary of Names
- Appendix 3 List of Contributors
- Notes
- Index of Names
Summary
Introduction to Meshchaninov
Very little work by the theorists of Japhetidology have appeared in English translation, and so the Anglophone reader has hitherto had to rely on secondhand accounts, many of which were written in the midst of the Cold War and marked by its oversimplifications and rhetoric. Only a few scattered works by Nikolai Marr have ever appeared in English, generally in publications that are now difficult to obtain, and the work of some of the most talented scholars who worked within the trend have never been translated or even discussed in any sustained fashion. There are probably good reasons that Marr's own tortuous musings have never attracted a dedicated translator, for they frequently try the patience even of native Russian speakers, but this cannot be said of all the scholars who espoused some version of Japhetic Theory. It is with this in mind that we offer Ivan Meshchaninov's ‘Theses’ on Japhetidology, which were published at the beginning of his 1929 book Introduction to Japhetidology (Vvedenie v iafetidologüu), in which the author aimed to provide a systematic and accessible overview of the field. The book was published as one of a series of monographs of the Institute of the Comparative History of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East (Institut sravnitel'noi istorü literatur i iazykov Zapada i Vostoka) in Leningrad that included such well-known works as Pavel Medvedev's The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship (Formal'nyi metod v literaturovedenü, 1928), Valentin Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Marksizm i filosofiia iazyka, 1929) and Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevskü's Art (Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo, 1929).
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- Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917–1938The Birth of Sociological Linguistics, pp. 169 - 180Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010