The Estonian Language as Presented in the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia: Language Descriptions and Ideology
The Estonian Language as Presented in the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia: Language Descriptions and Ideology

Summary/Abstract: Articles about the Estonian language published in the three editions of the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia bear the imprint of their epochs and ideologies. It becomes apparent even in the fragments of articles that contain language description ‘as such’ and should have been the most neutral ones. The article about Estonian from the first edition of the encyclopaedia seems the most ideologically marked: the view of Estonian in the general social context evidently prevails, while the language itself is only described to a lesser degree. This can be explained by political and social reasons.

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