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After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

Gorham sets the conceptual context for the book early in the introduction by explaining that his work is based on two key assumptions. The first is that “language not only reflects but itself shapes perception, identity, reality; that how we name things and call people helps define not only their image and status in society, but our own as well” (p. 3). The second is that “language, culture, and politics are closely intertwined and mutually dependent on one another for meaning” (p. 3). Recognizing that the premise of the interdependence of language, culture, identity, authority, and power has become “something of a truism in contemporary scholarship” (p. 3), Gorham nevertheless brings in perspectives from such fields as cultural studies, sociolinguistics, cultural anthropology, and media studies, thus immediately highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of his work and a wide range of academic audiences who would find the book valuable.