The articles in this comparative special issue of Sociolinguistic Studies, ‘Post-Soviet identities: Ethnic, national, linguistic, and imperial’, are focussed on the dynamic of the collective identity formation of the peoples in the post-Soviet space through an analysis of the linguistic and inter-ethnic situations in five distinct settings: Kazakhstan, the Autonomous Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation, Moldova, the Baltic countries and the Russian-speaking diasporas in Europe (in Germany and Norway in particular). Sociolinguistic Studies 9.2-3 (2015) table of contents View this email in your browser<http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=f79a7e9b18&e=dd8b44316a> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65/images/abf8da63-933c-45c8-92d7-1423488fbaa9.jpg] Sociolinguistic Studies Issue 9.2-3 (2015) table of contents Special Issue: Post-Soviet identities: Ethnic, national, linguistic, and imperial Guest Editors: Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Tallinn University & University of Tartu, Estonia Martin Ehala, University of Tartu, Estonia Articles Language and identity in the late Soviet Union and thereafter Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Martin Ehala http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26828<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=b3127a22ed&e=dd8b44316a> Blurring of collective identities in the post-Soviet space Martin Ehala http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26734<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=052efa0b3e&e=dd8b44316a> Transnistrian Conflict in the Context of Post-Soviet Nation-Building Anastasia V. Mitrofanova http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26392<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=585018c255&e=dd8b44316a> ‘What is my country to me?’ Identity construction by the Russian-speakers in the Baltic countries Anastassia Zabrodskaja http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26885<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=bb71b29b27&e=dd8b44316a> Language use and self-identification: The case of Lithuanian Poles Kinga Geben, Meilutė Ramonienė http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26387<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=f4fc0d411b&e=dd8b44316a> Sakha language and education in a social, cultural and political context Aimar Ventsel, Natal’ia Struchkova http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26728<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=ed7747ab24&e=dd8b44316a> Cultural and language self-identification of ethnic minority groups in Kazakhstan Sholpan Zharkynbekova, Aliya Aimoldina, Damira Akynova http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26587<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=80d7b72120&e=dd8b44316a> Maintaining ties: Russian-speaking communities in Germany and Norway Ekaterina Bagreeva, German Mednzheritskiy http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26622<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=2158949db2&e=dd8b44316a> Book Reviews- open access Language ideologies and the globalization of ’standard’ Spanish, Darren Paffey (2012) Reviewed by Angela Bartens http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26269<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=57f1778b6a&e=dd8b44316a> Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect Barbara Johnstone (2013) Reviewed by Holman Tse http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/SS/article/view/26683<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=86d68d12e0&e=dd8b44316a> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65/images/50ea8764-e80b-4c1b-9555-6086f9201a7c.jpg] Editor-in-Chief Xoán Paulo Rodríguez-Yáñez<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, University of Vigo Reviews Editor Angela Bartens<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, University of Turku Sociolinguistic Studies http://equinoxpub.com/SS<http://equinoxpub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b079594af3b248f2afa52f65&id=c290780afd&e=dd8b44316a> ISSN: 1750-8649 (print) ISSN: 1750-8657 (online)