Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2017 10) 40-46 ~ ~ ~ УДК 811.161.1; 81’35 Russian Language Community and its Mass Manifestations Igor E. Kim* Institute of Philology of the SB RAS 8 Nikolaeva Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Received 25.11.2016, received in revised form 15.12.2016, accepted 11.01.2017 The paper concerns the manifestations of the most extensive philological practices in the Russian language community, such as the reforms of the Russian orthography and the “Total Dictation”, the latter being an annual event involving a large Russian-speaking audience all over the world. <...> The comparison of the Total dictation with the reforms of the Russian orthography shows that the functions of the Russian language community members are different in each practice. <...> The Total dictation presents the new roles for the members of the language community in the philological practice: the role of the dictation author, who combines the featurepublicist content with the set language forms, and the role of a philological manager. <...> The Total dictation demonstrates the mass participation of the “silent majority” (A.Ia. <...> Russian sociolinguistics uses the term communication environment (for example, it is used in the research field) (Avrorin, 1975). <...> The internal form of the term deprives the language group seen as communication environment of such an important characteristic feature as its activity towards language. <...> The matter is if there exists a more conscious part of the Russian language community, which is active towards language, voluntary when choosing linguistic means, concerned about internal and external issues of language existence itself and language existence of ethnos. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: kimkim271060@yahoo.com – 40 – term Russian language community for this part of the Russian language group. <...> Outlining the Russian language community I mean an implicitly defined Russian-speaking community, the members of which are united due to the fact that they value their language existence and language presence in the society. <...> The Russian language community is potential; its existence in usual conditions is invisible and obscure. <...> Russian Language Community and its Mass Manifestations one of his books having “The Medieval World: the Culture of Silent Majority” title (Gurevich, 1990). <...> The conception of power, social organization of society made by illiterate or not included into the documental <...>