Aleksandr D. Švejcer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Aleksandr D. Švejcer is involved.

Titles

Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Theory, Problems, Methods

Aleksandr D. Švejcer

The "common core" of different sociolinguistic schools includes a number of general problems such as the social differentiation of language, the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistic situations, language engineering, national and standard languages and… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 15] 1986. vii, 193 pp.

Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Aleksandr D. Švejcer and L.B. Nikol'skij

Translation from the original Russian edition. The first Soviet text-book on sociolinguistics, the book introduces the reader to some of its basic problems, such as language and social structure, language as a social factor, language and nation, language and culture, language and the sociology of… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 14] 1986. xii, 181 pp.

Article

Švejcer, Aleksandr D. 1999 At the Dawn of Simultaneous Interpretation in Russia History of Interpreting, Kurz, Ingrid and Margareta Bowen (eds.), pp. 23–28 | Article

This is a brief outline of the early history of simultaneous interpretation in Russia from its first use at the 6th Comintern Congress (1928). The highlights of the early postwar period included the active participation of Soviet interpreters in the Nuremberg Trial and the Tokyo Trial of major… read more