Linguistic Landscape and What It Tells Us About the Integration of the Russian Language Into Israeli Economy

Yelenevskaya, Maria; Fialkova, Larisa

doi:10.22363/2312-9182-2017-21-3-557-586

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“…Since the 2000s the Russian language has been emerging as a new lingua franca and "a commodity" in the former USSR republics and abroad (Muth, 2017;Suryanarayan 2017;Viimaranta et al 2017;Yelenevskaya and Fialkova 2017) due to tourism, immigration, international marriages and in some cases -especially in Cyprus -even cultural and religious ties, military and political cooperation, investments and transnational corporations (Filippov 2010;Kuznetsov 2010). In most communities in and outside post-Soviet space where Russian-speakers live, there is an ongoing discussion of the role played by the Russian language in children's education and linguistic backgrounds (Pavlenko, 2008;Ryazanova-Clarke, 2014).…”

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Translanguaging in the Family Context: Evidence from Cyprus, Sweden and Estonia

Karpava

Ringblom

Zabrodskaja

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The aim of this paper is to highlight translanguaging practices in the home among bilingual/multilingual Russian-speaking children and their parents in Cyprus, Sweden and Estonia. Multilingual families are the focus of our research: 50 in Cyprus, 20 in Estonia and 50 in Sweden. Using parental written question- naires with the focus on general background, socio-economic status and language proficiency, as well as oral semi-structured interviews and ethnographic participant observation, our study attempts to describe how family language policy is managed through translanguaging and literacy activities in multilingual Russian-speaking families in three different cultural and linguistic environments. Our results show both differences and similarities among Russian-speakers in the three countries, not only in their family language practices, but also in their attitudes towards the fluidity of language, language repertoires, translanguaging and Russian-language literacy. Russian-speakers incorporate a wide range of language repertoires in their everyday lives. Sometimes, such language contacts generate power struggles and the language ideological dimension becomes a key terrain to explore how speakers feel about the need to effectively attain a degree of multilingualism. Multilingualism and the maintenance of the Russian language and culture are usually encouraged, and parents often choose the one-parent-one-language approach at home. However, not all families make conscious choices regarding specific language management and may have “laissez-faire” attitudes to the use of languages in the family. We show how family language use and child-directed translanguaging can support, expand and enhance dynamic bilingualism/multilingualism, and reinforce and integrate minority language in a wider context: societal and educational.

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Translanguaging in the Family Context: Evidence from Cyprus, Sweden and Estonia

Karpava

Ringblom

Zabrodskaja

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…К примеру, рассматривается функционирование пиджинов на русско-китайской границе [Григоричев и др., 2017], на территории Серверной Норвегии [Ольнова, 2017]. Изучаются также языковые практики, отраженные в публичных знаках и текстах, которые образуют языковой ландшафт [Павленко, 2017;Yelenevskaya et al, 2017].…”

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State Language, Language Situation and Language Policy in Legislation: Representations in the Russian Federal Law “On the State Language of the Russian Federation

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The article addresses the issue of language situation and language policy through the analysis of legislation. Taking a social constructionist approach to law, the authors claim that a legal text can be explored for the purpose of discovering typical representations and linguistic resources that conceptualise languages, language situation and language policy. The paper offers a concise overview of domestic and foreign scholarship in the field as well as offering definitions for the basic categories used in the research. The analysis of the Russian Federal Law “On the State Language of the Russian Federation” shows that the Russian language is constructed as a state language, which has a few aspects. It is represented as an instrument of national unity, an instrument of maintaining culture, and an instrument of international impact. In terms of semantic roles, the Russian language is represented not only as an agent and instrument, but also as a patient, the object of negative and positive impact. The contexts mentioning the Russian language and other languages and idioms construct the relations between the languages as mutually reinforcing (thus, constructing the semantics of unity) or mutually excluding (thus, constructing the semantics of opposition).

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“…An updated understanding of LL also includes moving signage of various kinds (such as running lines on video screens, ads and texts on vehicles, on clothing, etc.) and institutional, commercial and individual websites, thus viewing a LL not as a static entity but as a highly dynamic and virtual entity (Yelenevskaya and Fialkova 2017).…”

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“…The flexibility and dynamism of comprehending signage and texts in several languages is captured in the concept of multilingualism (Wei 2011, Cenoz and Gorter 2015, Pavlenko 2017, Yelenevskaya and Fialkova 2017. From the perspective of trans-languaging, multilingual language users utilize their language repertoire as an interrelated and unitary communication system, not as a sum of discrete and disconnected entities (cf.…”

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Tourist Notices in the Spotlight of Linguistic Landscape and Translation Studies

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Vaňková

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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In the 21st century, even local tourist spots are globally accessible and need to be communicated in a globally shared language, a lingua franca (Ben-Rafael & Ben Rafael 2015). The language of most obvious choice among speakers from different linguacultural backgrounds is English. When translating notices in national parks into English, translators should predominantly consider the function of the TT (target text), the target audience (not exclusively L1 speakers of English but, the speakers of a variety of languacultures communicating in English as lingua franca (ELF) and opt for translation solutions that would account for visitors representing a diversity of languacultures. The present paper aims at finding out what modifications in translation of visitors’ rules may be necessary if the target readership is to be considered, and at explicating the translation process through applying a transdisciplinary perspective of ELF studies, linguistic landscape (LL) studies, cross-field studies on conceptualization, translanguaging and translation studies. The study shows that these modifications affect the significance and hierarchy of the four principles operating in LL (presentation-of-self, power-relations, good reasons and collective-identity) and are projected into specific LL-tailored translation solutions (shifts in modality, lexis, style and discourse markers). The modifications are achievable in ELF, which, as a form and function, a de-regionalized and de-culturalized artifact of global village, is capable of catering for a variety of languacultures with their specific societal conventions, practices, and the whole explicit and implicit axio-sphere.

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Linguistic Landscape and What It Tells Us About the Integration of the Russian Language Into Israeli Economy

Cited by 15 publications

References 14 publications

Translanguaging in the Family Context: Evidence from Cyprus, Sweden and Estonia

Translanguaging in the Family Context: Evidence from Cyprus, Sweden and Estonia

State Language, Language Situation and Language Policy in Legislation: Representations in the Russian Federal Law “On the State Language of the Russian Federation

Tourist Notices in the Spotlight of Linguistic Landscape and Translation Studies

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