Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1949-3
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

This is the first such collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The post-Soviet period in Ukraine and Kazakhstan has been characterized not only by changes in the economic marketplace in the transition from communism to capitalism, but also in the linguistic marketplace. During the Soviet period, Russian was the primary language of schooling, media, and government administration in both countries, leading to widespread language shift away from their titular languages, especially among the educated urban elites. Since independence, Ukrainian and Kazakh, which occupied relatively peripheral positions in the Soviet-era marketplace, have been elevated to the status of national languages and institutionalized in government and schools, thus increasing their symbolic power. Nevertheless, the years since independence have also seen contentious debates around language.
Employing various methodological tools ranging from surveys to critical discourse analysis of legislation, literary texts and social media products, the authors in this volume seek to demonstrate and explain how political relations and hegemonic ideologies have been reproduced and negotiated at both the macro-level in legislation on language and state-sponsored media channels and embodiments of political and linguistic ideologies in translations, as well as at the micro-level of everyday language practices, school choice, and discourses on social media platforms. Among the authors are Elise S. Ahn, Igor Danylenko, Bridget Goodman, Lada Kolomiyets, Svitlana Melnyk, Juldyz Smagulova, Yuliia Soroka, and Maryna Vardanian.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kudriavtseva, Natalia Friedman

Ahn, Elise S.

Danylenko, Igor

Goodman, Bridget

Kolomiyets, Lada

Melnyk, Svitlana

Nedashkivska, Alla

Smagulova, Juldyz

Soroka, Yuliia

Vardanian, Maryna

Friedman, Debra A.

Kudriavtseva, Natalia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bilaniuk, Laada

Ahn, Elise S.

Danylenko, Igor

Goodman, Bridget

Kolomiyets, Lada

Melnyk, Svitlana

Nedashkivska, Alla

Smagulova, Juldyz

Soroka, Yuliia

Vardanian, Maryna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Bilaniuk, Laada
Dr. Laada Bilaniuk is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Friedman, Debra A.
Dr. Debra A. Friedman is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her work on the role of language teaching in the revitalization of the Ukrainian language and the construction of national identity has been published in Applied Linguistics, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism and several edited volumes. Friedman is co-author of Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research (Routledge 2017) and author of Researching Second Language Classrooms (in progress).

Kudriavtseva, Natalia
Dr. Natalia Kudriavtseva is Professor of Translation and Slavic Studies at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. She is also a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. Kudriavtseva was a fellow at the School for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris (2023), Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst (2022-2023) and Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study in Greifswald (2022). She has been a member of editorial boards of the Ideology and Politics Journal, ???????? ????????? (Foreign Philology) as well as ????????? ???????? ?????????? (Actual Problems of Mind) and has written for the Kennan Focus Ukraine blog and Germany-based Ukraine-Analysen as well as Ukrainian Analytical Digest.

Dr. Debra A. Friedman is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her work on the role of language teaching in the revitalization of the Ukrainian language and the construction of national identity has been published in Applied Linguistics, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism and several edited volumes. Friedman is co-author of Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research (Routledge 2017) and author of Researching Second Language Classrooms (in progress).