Language Policy and Discourse on Languages in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych

(25 February 2010–28 October 2012)
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0497-0
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 506 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

The status of Ukrainian as the sole state language of Ukraine has been challenged by various post-Soviet political forces since it was established in 1989 and enshrined in the Constitution in 1996. Since President Viktor Yanukovych came to power in February 2010, the President and the Party of Regions have put forward several initiatives to promote the Russian language at the expense of Ukrainian as well as the minority languages of Ukraine. Paradoxically, their most important instrument has been the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. However, the Russian language in Ukraine does not meet the criteria of a regional or minority language according to the Charter nor do those politicians who struggle for the “rights of the native Russian language” in the name of Russkiy mir represent the democratic values upon which the Charter is built, as perfectly reflected by the history of the unconstitutional language law of 2012.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moser, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Loyalty toward the small large language
2. The European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages in Ukraine
3. Viktor Yanukovych and the Ukrainian language
4. The Russian World and the "compatriots"
5. The hawk in Ukrainian language policy: Vadym Kolesnichenko
6. Dmytro Tabachnyk and the Ukrainian language in the educational sphere
7. Olena Bondarenko and the Ukrainian language in the electronic media
8. The draft law of 7 September 2010
9. Anticipating the law: Serhiy Kivalov, the Constitutional Court, and the Ukrainian language in the courts of law
10. Vadym Kolesnichenko's and Serhiy Kivalov's draft law "On Principles of the State Language Policy"
11. Summary and outlook
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Moser is Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Philology at the University of Vienna, Ukrainian Free University at Munich, and Pázmány Péter Catholic University at Budapest. His more than 250 publications include several monographs, most recently: Prychynky do istoriyi ukrainskoyi movy (3rd edn, Nova Knyha 2012) and Taras Shevchenko i suchasna ukrayinska mova: Sproba hidnoyi otsinky (NANU et al. 2012).