The rise of Soviet sociolinguistics from
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Craig Brandist
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Nineteenth-century Russian philology was dominated by an approach derived from German Völkerpsychologie. Language and social consciousness were viewed as embodiments of "national-popular psychology." The shortcomings of this approach were becoming apparent at the end of the prerevolutionary period,