A thematic section on “The Language Question in Russia Today” is forthcoming in the 2008 issue of Scando-Slavica. Contributors: Tine Roesen (“Reformed Narration: Pure Thought and Structuring Brackets in Vladimir Makanin’s Andegraund, ili Geroi nashego vremeni (1998)”), Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (“Re-creation of the Nation: Orthodox and Heterodox Discourses in Post-Soviet Russia”), Daniel Weiss (Уместно ли наказывать за публичное употребление мата? Oбщественное мнение и здарвый разум лингвистов?), Elena Markasova (Вводные слова как зеркало «новой вежливости» в современном русском языке), Natalia Fateeva (Креативные функции неографизмов в современной русской поэзии (метаграфический аспект)) and Ingunn Lunde (short introduction)

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A volume in Scandinavian languages entitled Terminal East: Totalitarian and Posttotalitarian Discourses was launched 5 March 2008:

Terminal Øst: Totalitære og posttotalitære diskurser

Ed. by Ingunn Lunde & Susanna Witt

Oslo: Spartacus/Scandinavian Academic Press

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The first Landslide volume, based on the Landslide conference 2005, was published 2006:

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Individual project participants publish (and partly co-author) articles in international journals (see the individual home pages for information on publications). A selection of papers from the third and fourth conferences have been submitted for thematic sections in scholarly journals. A further conference volume is planned containing the papers given at the 2008 conference.