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During the Soviet years a number of popular Russian literary works were published in which native Siberian individuals are depicted in interactions with urban and typically non-Siberian Russians.1 The first of these Siberians is Dersu Uzala of the classic works by V. K. Arsen’ev. In most such works the narrator shows a patronizing attitude toward the Siberian, who is treated as less than fully adult in language use and reasoning.
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V. K. Arsen’ev, Po Ussuriiskomu kraiu (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo geograficheskoi literatury, [1921] 1960), p. 178. Subsequently cited in the text as UK.
L. I. Sem, Ocherki dialektov nanaiskogo iazyka: Bikinskii (ussuriiskii) dialekt (Leningrad: Nauka, 1976), p. 11.
Johanna Nichols, “The Bottom Line: Chinese Pidgin Russian,” in W. L. Chafe and J. Nichols, eds., Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986), pp. 239–257.
V. K. Arsen’ev, Dersu Uzala (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo geograficheskoi literatury, [1922] 1960), p. 39. Subsequently cited in the text as DU.
V. K. Arsen’ev, V debriakh Ussuriiskogo kraia (Khabarovsk: Knizhnoe delo, 1928). Subsequently cited in the text as DUK.
See N. Lopatin, Leto sredi orochei i gol’dov (Vladivostok: Dalekaia okraina, 1915);
S. Maksimov, Na vostoke. Poezdki na Amur (v 1860–61 godakh). Dorozhnye zametki i vospominaniia (St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaia polza, 1864); and
V. P. Margaritov, Ob orochakh Imperatorskoi gavani (St. Petersburg: Obshchestvo izucheniia Amurskago kraia, 1888).
See E. A. Bryzgunova, Zvuki i intonatsiia russkoi rechi (Moscow: Russkii iazyk, 1977).
Forms cited from V. I. Tsintsius, ed., Sravnitel’nyi slovar’ tungusoman’ chzhurskikh iazykov: Materialy k ètimologicheskomu slovariu (Leningrad: Nauka, 1977), vol. 2, p. 27.
A. Fadeev, A, Poslednii iz Udege, in Sobranie sochinenii (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1959), vol. 2, p. 170.
Iurii Simchenko, Zimnii marshrut po Gydanu (Moscow: Mysl’, 1975), pp. 13–14.
Nikolai Kuzakov, Taiga—moi dom (Moscow: Mysl’, 1977), pp. 14–15. Zvezda here was, according to Kuzakov, the Tungus meteorite of 1908.
Aleksandr Sheludiakov, Iz plemeni kedra: Iuganskaia istoriia (Moscow: Sovremennik, 1972), pp. 52–53.
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Nichols, J. (1993). Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature. In: Diment, G., Slezkine, Y. (eds) Between Heaven and Hell. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08914-4_11
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