The quest for a unified alphabet: a Soviet revolutionary project

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Actes de conférence (partie): contribution originale à la littérature scientifique, publiée à l'occasion de conférences scientifiques, dans un ouvrage de compte-rendu (proceedings), ou dans l'édition spéciale d'un journal reconnu (conference proceedings).
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Titre
The quest for a unified alphabet: a Soviet revolutionary project
Titre de la conférence
Rivoluzione visiva attraverso visioni rivoluzionarie: alfabeti, cinema e letteratura in URSS
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Simonato Elena
Organisation
Quaderni di ri-cognizioni
Adresse
Turin
ISBN
978-88-7590-134-9
ISSN
2384-8987
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
05/2019
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Editeur⸱rice scientifique
Tomelleri Vittorio, Maurizio Massimo
Volume
VIII
Pages
37-48
Langue
anglais
Résumé
The unification of alphabets should be considered as the most exciting initiative of the whole language building [jazykovoe stroitel’stvo] in the Soviet Union in the early 1930’s. My paper aims at exploring the scopes and the results of this project, as well as its internal logics. I will try to examine how linguistic politics could be explained in the frame of phonological theory, which anticipated Troubetzkoy’s reflections by about fifteen years. Then I will show how concretely the unified alphabet was elaborated, and for which languages, among the Caucasian, Turkic and others. I will explain how the new alphabet was received by national elites and by politicians, and, finally, analyse the reasons for its failure. In the light of my analysis, the passage to Cyrillic scripts in the late 1930’s appears not only as a political, but also a scientific issue.
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Script reforms, Soviet linguistic politics, Unified alphabet, NTA, Soviet linguistics, Phonemic theory
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05/03/2019 18:18
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