Seals Choosing a Mother Tongue

The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78892-501-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 169, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights regarding multilingualism among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the diaspora of New Zealand, the US and Canada, and sheds light on the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on language attitudes among Ukrainians around the world. Crucially, it features an analysis of a new movement in Ukraine that developed during the course of the war – ‘changing your mother tongue’, which embodies what it is to renegotiate linguistic identity. It will be of value to researchers, faculty, and students in the areas of linguistics, Slavic studies, history, politics, anthropology, sociology and international affairs, as well as those interested in Ukrainian affairs more generally.

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seals, Corinne A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Historical Language Ideologies and Sociopolitical Conflict in Ukraine

Chapter 2. Language and Identity After the Orange Revolution

Chapter 3. Othering and Positioning During a Time of War

Chapter 4. Who’s Responsible? The Politics of Language

Chapter 5. Renegotiating Identity and ‘Changing Your Mother Tongue’

Chapter 6. Investment and Loyalty in the Ukrainian Diaspora

Chapter 7. ‘It Doesn’t Matter What You Speak’: Challenges to Dominant Language Ideologies by Ukrainian Young Adults

Concluding Thoughts

Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Seals, Corinne A.
Corinne A. Seals is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Heritage Language Policies Around the World (with S. Shah; 2017, Routledge) and Embracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts (with V.I. Olsen-Reeder; 2019, VU University Press). Her research interests include language and identity, language and politics and Ukrainian issues.