A symposium bringing together scholars of literary and socio-cultural linguistics, Russian writers and promoters of linguistic culture. On Thursday 14 March 2013, the Dashkova Centre hosted an international symposium on The writer as a 'language laboratory': experiment, reflection and construction of social meaning The writer as a 'language laboratory': experiment, reflection and construction of social meaning Image The symposium brought together scholars of literary and socio-cultural linguistics, Russian writers and promoters of linguistic culture. The objective was to discuss the role of the contemporary public literary figure as a living linguistic laboratory, with a specific focus on the writer being an agent of linguistic culture who, in particular, manufactures and calibrates social and political values in language. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), University of Glasgow. CRCEES is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. In association with Academia Rossica. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke HTML Maxim Krongauz HTML Mikhail Epstein HTML Roman Leibov HTML Rose France HTML Tine Roesen HTML This article was published on 2024-08-13