7 Language Policy in Ukraine: The Burdens of the Past and the Possibilities of the Future

Csernicskó, István

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“…Such East European states as Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova form a particular group of countries with shifting dynamics in language management. Whilst Belarus adopted Russian as its second state language, which is currently used as a de facto main language of the country (Pavlenko 2013), and Moldova is polarised between the national Moldovan and the prestigious Russian (Prina 2012), Ukraine has gone through different stages of language regulation involving extreme degrees of politicisation of the language question (Csernicskó 2017, Smaglo 2020.…”

Section: The Russian Language In Post-soviet Immigrant Communitiesmentioning

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“…Такие восточноевропейские государства, как Беларусь, Украина и Молдова, образуют особую группу стран с меняющейся динамикой языковой политики. В то время как Беларусь приняла русский язык в качестве своего второго государственного языка, который в настоящее время де-факто используется в качестве основного языка страны (Pavlenko 2013), Молдова поляризована между национальным молдавским и престижным русским (Prina 2012), а Украина проходит разные этапы языкового регулирования, включая крайнюю степень политизации языкового вопроса (Csernicskó 2017, Smaglo 2020.…”

Section: русский язык в постсоветских иммигрантских сообществахunclassified

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The Russian language maintenance and language contacts

Zabrodskaja

Ivanova

2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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In our introductory article, we outline the main sociolinguistic features of Russian as a heritage language of post-Soviet immigrants in European settings and beyond. We offer a general overview of the evolution of Russian as a global language, with a particular focus on its geodemographics and economic and social value as a lingua franca . Based on this, we analyse the main principles defining the maintenance of Russian as a language of migration and as a heritage language in different countries, and emphasise the most important questions that still need to be addressed in this field of research. The main objective of this special issue is to combine the most recent research on the vitality of different languages of post-Soviet republics in new political milieu, with a particular focus on European and Asian countries, but there are other objectives as well. We propose to explore the factors that have either favoured or hindered the maintenance and transmission of languages of post-Soviet immigrants and repatriates, and how these sociolinguistic processes become evident in language vitality on both private and public levels. Our special issue primarily addresses the questions of family language policy, new language contacts and their management, and linguistic landscape in heritage speakers, diasporas and their new settings in Europe, Asia and the US.

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Section: русский язык в постсоветских иммигрантских сообществахunclassified

The Russian language maintenance and language contacts

Zabrodskaja

Ivanova

2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…The situation which is defined as the "Ukrainian crisis" in the international press is a consequence that is composed by different factors. The linguistic division of the country and the Ukrainian-Russian linguistic rivalry have also contributed to causing the political, military and economic crisis (Csernicskó, 2017).…”

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“…In spite of this, due to negative historical experiences, bilingualism is stigmatized in Ukraine (Pavlenko, 2011, p. 52). The majority of the Ukrainian intelligentsia feel the bilingualism as a yoke (Vynnychuk, 2016) (Csernicskó, 2017). The language law of 2012 which codifies bilingualism on a regional level is considered a Troian horse (Marusyk, 2016b).…”

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Bilingualism in Ukraine: Value or Challenge?

Csernicskó

Máté

2017

Sustainable Multilingualism

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Summary Several analyses have summarized the linguistic situation of Ukraine, highlighting various aspects of the problematic issues of Ukraine’s language policy. The fundamental problems of the linguistic situation in Ukraine are the lack of consensus regarding the issue of what role the Ukrainian language has in constructing the new post-Soviet identity and in nation building, what status the Russian language should be given in Ukraine. According to the data from the 2001 census, 80% of the adult population of Ukraine speak (at least) one other language fluently in addition to their mother tongue. In the country it is clear that the reality in most of Ukraine is of bilingualism. Almost everyone in Ukraine is bilingual; to varying degrees, a fundamental characteristic of the language situation in Ukraine is bilingualism of society. In spite of this, due to negative historical experiences, bilingualism is stigmatized in Ukraine, and that makes codification of bilingualism impossible on the state level. The paper shows the attitude of the political elite that took power after the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych towards the issue of bilingualism. We present how the linguists and representatives of the intellectuals comment on the bilingualism in Ukraine. The primordial, national romantic view that makes the Ukrainian language and the (free and independent) Ukrainian nation the same nowadays strongly dominates in Ukraine.

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The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine

Csernicskó¹,

Kontra²

2022

The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights

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7 Language Policy in Ukraine: The Burdens of the Past and the Possibilities of the Future

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The Russian language maintenance and language contacts

The Russian language maintenance and language contacts

Bilingualism in Ukraine: Value or Challenge?

The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine

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