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Motivated and Unmotivated Violations from the Norm in Children's Books in Organizing Extracurricular Reading
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Sabitova, Aigul; Salimova, Daniya; Ibragimova, Elmira – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The paper presents the results of the research in the framework of the current trends in linguistics--text linguistics and stylistics. Now that the concept of the language norm is blurred to some extent due to the strong phenomena in language and speech dynamics, the language of texts for children should be treated with special attention and care,…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Books, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries
Reading as a Value among Young Russian Intellectuals
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Borusiak, Liubov' – Russian Education and Society, 2012
It is acknowledged that the value of reading has gone down in today's Russian society, and this is rated as unequivocally negative. Instead of "the most well-read country in the world," Russia is now called a "society of TV viewers" by the some observers; it is not a nation of independent thinkers but passive objects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Intellectual Experience, Cultural Maintenance
Russian Reading in a Period of Social and Cultural Change.
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Stelmakh, V. D. – International Information and Library Review, 1995
Addresses social and cultural changes of reading in Russia: (1) changes in cultural hierarchy; (2) changes in reader behavior; (3) declining importance of classic literature; and (4) rise of mass culture and its effects. Tables present information on the genre of books that were best sellers and books borrowed from Russian libraries. (JMV)
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Classics (Literature), Foreign Countries, Popular Culture