Contested tongues: Language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine. Laada Bilaniuk (2005)

Melnyk, Svitlana

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“…To provide a background against which the most recent data can be considered, this section briefly reviews what is relevant regarding the linguistic situation in Ukraine. The current linguistic situation can be described as a combination of competing and unclear standards (Bilaniuk, 2005;Masenko, 2010) and wide regional variation (Del Gaudio, 2010). It can also be characterized by a heavy influence of regional varieties upon the norms of standard Ukrainian accompanied by a laxing of puristic tendencies to ban non-standard regional elements (Danylenko, 2015), which Gricenko (2012:41) calls "the dialect Reconquista.…”

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“…Surzhyk has many denotations in Ukrainian society, covering such diverse referents as entire village dialects, the insertion of Russian words into Ukrainian speech, or simply a Russian accent in one's Ukrainian (Bilaniuk, 2005;Bilaniuk & Melnyk, 2008). Historically, suzhyk was generally defined as codemixing by Ukrainian peasants who were trying to sound more cultured or educated by adding Russian words to their speech, often incorrectly (Bilaniuk & Melnyk, 2008); now it can refer to urban Russian speakers who are trying to use Ukrainian.…”

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“…Although the question asked talks specifically about Ukrainian, the regions indicated by western respondents do have a higher rate of Russian language use, as compared to the west, which could be in the minds of the respondents and be influential. The western speakers could also be highlighting the use of Surzhyk (Ukrainian-Russian code-mixing) in these areas, the attitudes towards Ukrainian-Russian codemixing being overwhelmingly negative (Bernsand, 2006;Bilaniuk, 2005).…”

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Linguistic tug-of-war: regional perceptions of Ukrainian

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2024

J. of Ling. Geography

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The present study offers an examination of attitudes and perceptions of the Ukrainian language by respondents who have lived at least half of their life in Ukraine; they were asked to draw on a map of Ukraine where the most correct Ukrainian is spoken and where the Ukrainian that grates on one’s ears is spoken. Recruitment for the online survey was conducted by placing ads on several Ukrainian-language Facebook pages, along with a link to the survey. The findings presented are from a total of 90 analyzed surveys. Respondents’ maps were analyzed and compared using QGIS software. The research demonstrates that that there is a tug-of-war of correctness between Kyiv and Lviv. It also shows that there is an overall tendency of native speakers to evaluate the Transcarpathian region as the area that grates one’s ears.

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Linguistic tug-of-war: regional perceptions of Ukrainian

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2024

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“…During the Soviet period, and especially after 1933, in major communicative domains such as administration, education, science, culture and the army, Ukrainian played either a secondary role or was completely suppressed. The resulting imbalanced Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism, to the detriment of Ukrainian, and, as a consequence, the emergence of a mixed Ukrainian-Russian code, known as suržyk (Trub, 2000: 47-49) are therefore characteristic for the language situation in Ukraine (Tkachenko, 1999;Taranenko, 2001;Burda, 2002; see also Bilaniuk, 2005;Besters Dilger, 2009;Kulyk, 2017;Sokolova and Zalizniak, 2018;Zhabotynska, 2018;Masenko, 2020a). In our paper, we use the terms "Russian-speaking" and "Ukrainian-speaking" to indicate the dominant language in the bilinguals under scrutiny.…”

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Ukrainian–Russian bilingualism in the war-affected migrant and refugee communities in Austria and Germany: a survey-based study on language attitudes

Warditz,

Meir

2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThis paper provides an initial exploration of Ukrainian–Russian bilingualism in the context of the war-affected migration from Ukraine to Austria and Germany. While extensive research exists on various aspects of Ukrainian– Russian bilingualism in relation to Ukraine itself, thus far no studies have been conducted on this bilingualism in the diasporic context, i.e., as a language of the first and subsequential generations with a migrant background in Austria and Germany.MethodsTo address this research gap, our paper examines the language attitudes of two respondent groups with a Ukrainian background in the two countries: migrants and refugees who left Ukraine after 2014 and those who left after Russia’s invasion in February 2022. In the framework of a sociolinguistic survey, we describe their current attitudes regarding the use of Ukrainian and Russian, among others, in relation to the actual and intended use of the language(s) in the multilingual context of migration. The survey eliciting information on demographic information, language proficiency, language attitudes and language use was conducted on 406 Ukrainians in two host countries (Austria: n = 103; Germany: n = 306). First, we compared self-rated proficiency in Ukrainian and Russian as well as attitudes and use of these languages. Second, we applied a network modelling analysis to determine the nature of relationships between these variables.Results and discussionThe results indicated that proficiency in Ukrainian and in Russian were the strongest nodes in the model affecting language use and language attitudes toward the respective languages. Our data analysis focused on the pragmatic and symbolic value of Russian and Ukrainian playing a crucial role in the language vitality in multilingual settings. The paper discusses the imbalanced correlation of the symbolic and pragmatic value of Ukrainian and Russian in the diasporic Ukrainian communities. While Ukrainian has gained a higher symbolic status, Russian maintains a better pragmatic one, despite its negative symbolic status. However, we anticipate that the increasing symbolic value of Ukrainian and the diminishing value of Russian will lead to an increase in the use of Ukrainian also in Russian-dominant bilingual groups of Ukrainian migrants and refugees, even as an insider-code in hermetic minority groups.

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“…Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism share some of the above-mentioned (e.g. Kuzio, 1998;Bilaniuk, 2005Bilaniuk, , 2008Bilaniuk, , 2016Kamusella, 2005;Bilaniuk, Melnyk 2008;Taranenko 2007;Del Gaudio, 2015;Sokolova 2021) but the linguistic situations in the two countries though having much in common are nevertheless strikingly different and the main point of difference is the position of the titular language.…”

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Challenges and Reasons of Using a Passively Known Language in Daily Practice: Cases of Belarusian and Ukrainian

Liskovets

2023

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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The paper attempts to describe, discuss and analyse the situation of rapid and spontaneous transfer to practical usage of a language which speakers know only passively in the situation of stable closely related bilingualism. Such a transfer – from native Russian to Belarusian – has been taking place in the Republic of Belarus due to various reasons. Partly, this process was connected to the political situation in the country and around it; at the same time, a part of Russian-speaking intelligentsia (mostly residing in the country capital, Minsk) was in the process of reshaping of their national identity. The paper discusses in details both those reasons, as well as the peculiarities of the language situation promoting this process, its linguistic features and their difference from those of an interlanguage which arises in the situation of a foreign language acquisition and from those of trasyanka, the code in-between Russian and Belarusian. The phenomenon in the focus is also compared with the newest tendency of Russian-speaking Ukrainians to transit to using Ukrainian instead of Russian in their everyday communication and in social media. The paper is based on the data obtained in the course of longitude field study conducted in Minsk in 1999–2022 and the data derived from media and internet sources.

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Contested tongues: Language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine. Laada Bilaniuk (2005)

Abstract: Contested tongues: Language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine. Laada Bilaniuk (2005) Cornell University Press 230pp. ISBN 0801472792

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Linguistic tug-of-war: regional perceptions of Ukrainian

Linguistic tug-of-war: regional perceptions of Ukrainian

Ukrainian–Russian bilingualism in the war-affected migrant and refugee communities in Austria and Germany: a survey-based study on language attitudes

Challenges and Reasons of Using a Passively Known Language in Daily Practice: Cases of Belarusian and Ukrainian

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