Slavic studies
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studies of Slavic peoples, languages and culture
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- Instance of
- academic discipline
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- is the study of
- Slavic
- practiced by
- slavist
- Commons category
- Slavic studies
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- topic's main category
- Category:Slavic studies
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Encyclopedic overview
Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.
In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".
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