Linguistic Landscapes of Post-Soviet Ukraine

Linguistic Landscapes of Post-Soviet Ukraine
Author: Olga Alexeyevna Bever
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2010
Genre: Advertising
ISBN:

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This research investigates language use in Linguistic Landscapes (LLs) of an urban center of post-Soviet eastern Ukraine The major focus is on how the signs represent linguistic, social and ideological phenomena in the context of competing local, national, and global language ideologies with Ukrainian, Russian and English in Cyrillic and Roman scripts. More than 100 pictures of public signs were selected and analyzed, from more than one thousand photographs. Detailed analyses of the signs show that the 'one state - one language' official language policy is not effective in the predominantly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine: the signs frequently use Russian, and blend in Ukrainian. There were revealing differences between establishment categories. Bank signs were almost all in Ukrainian, because they are government regulated. In contrast, local clothing store signs used Russian, along with English and European languages to convey 'modernity', 'prestige' and 'high fashion'; other establishment (casinos and electronics stores) mixed Russian and Ukrainian with some English. English and European languages with Roman script were also frequently used to 'smooth over' the conflict between Ukrainian and Russian. The genetic closeness of Ukrainian and Russian allows a linguistic phenomenon that reconciles the languages, 'bivalency'. Bivalency refers to shared linguistic elements between the languages, allowing the signs to appeal to the local population, while complying with the official Ukrainian language policy. This work analyzes and documents bivalency at phonological, morphological, and lexical levels, introducing a new sensitive tool for quantifying language dominance in signs. The overall conclusion is that signs in the LLs reveal that despite the official language policy, both Ukrainian and Russian appear in signs. In this way, Linguistic Landscapes may predict a future Ukraine in which both Russian and Ukrainian are accepted as official languages. This work contributes several new perspectives to the analyses of LLs. It demonstrates that LLs are multimodal, multilayered and multidimensional to be studied from a multidisciplinary perspective; the methodology integrates Critical Discourse Analysis and grounded theory; LLs are considered as texts analyzed on multiple discourse levels. The work invents and applies continua of bivalency as a multilevel phenomenon. The research focuses on LLs in eastern Ukraine.

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: D. Gorter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230360238

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Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries

Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847690874

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In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries.

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: D. Gorter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230360238

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Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies
Author: Durk Gorter
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1800417160

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Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the theoretical approaches, innovative research methods and major themes that have been central to this dynamic area of research. Written by two authors who have been involved in the field from its inception, the book features summaries of studies from around the world, a discussion of the future of the field, and an analysis of the impact of linguistic landscape research on language policy, language learning and teaching, and minority language revitalization. It will be an invaluable companion for students and researchers in Linguistic Landscape Studies, as well as to those working in related areas. The book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams
Author: Catherine Wanner
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780271042619

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Focusing on schools, festivals, commemorative ceremonies, and monuments, Catherine Wanner shows how Soviet-created narratives have been recast to reflect a post-Soviet Ukrainocentric perspective. In the process, we see how new histories are understood and acted upon. This reveals regional cleavages and the resilience of cultural differences produced by the Soviet regime. For some people, the system they criticized yesterday is the one they long for today.

Linguistic Landscape in the City

Linguistic Landscape in the City
Author: Elana Goldberg Shohamy
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847692974

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Elana Shohamy is a professor and chair of the language education program at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, where she teaches, researches and writes about multiple issues relating to multilingualism: language policy, language testing and language in the public space. --

Contested Tongues

Contested Tongues
Author: Laada Bilaniuk
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780801472794

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During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual country where the two main languages are closely related but their statuses are hotly contested. Laada Bilaniuk finds that the social divisions in Ukraine are historically rooted, ideologically constructed, and inseparable from linguistic practice. She does not take the labeled categories as givens but questions what "Ukrainian" and "Russian" mean to different people, and how the boundaries between these categories may be blurred in unstable times.Bilaniuk's analysis of the contemporary situation is based on ethnographic research in Ukraine and grounded in historical research essential to understanding developments since the fall of the Soviet Union. "Mixed language" practices (surzhyk) in Ukraine have generally been either ignored or reviled, but Bilaniuk traces their history, their social implications, and their accompanying ideologies. Through a focus on mixed language and purism, the author examines the power dynamics of linguistic and cultural correction, through which people seek either to confer or to deny others social legitimacy. The author's examination of the rapid transformation of symbolic values in Ukraine challenges theories of language and social power that have as a rule been based on the experience of relatively stable societies.

Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom

Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom
Author: Greg Niedt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350125377

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Linguistic landscapes can play an important role in educating individuals beyond formal pedagogical environments. This book argues that anywhere can be a space for people to learn from displayed texts, images, and other communicated signs, and consequently a space where teachable cultural moments are created. Following language learning trajectories that 'exit through the language classroom' into city streets, public offices, museums and monuments, this volume presents innovative work demonstrating that anyone can learn from the linguistic landscape that surrounds them. Offering a bridge between theoretical research and practical application, chapters consider how we make sense of places by understanding how the landscape is used to express, claim and contest identities and ideologies. In this way, Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom highlights the unexpected potential of the informal settings for learning and for teachers to expand their students' intercultural experience.