Modern Russian history through the New Year Addresses
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This paper presents a corpus analysis of the addresses that the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia deliver every year before the New Year. The content of a New Year address is strongly codified and usually contains references to important events of the previous year. Analysis of the ways that the lexical patterns used in the New Year addresses are transformed and follow changes that have occurred in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia provides information about the ways linguistic units reflect political realities.
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