Language Use
Annotated Bibliography
Bocale, P. (2015). Italian, Ukrainian or Russian? Language and identity in Crimea, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 36(6), 620-637. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2014.980265.
This paper presents the results of fieldwork conducted among the small Italian minority living in Kerch between 2012 and 2013. After introducing the socio-historical background and the current situation of this particular minority population, it examines the attitudes of community members towards the different language they encounter. Grounded in Bourdieu’s theoretical approach to symbolic (linguistic, social and cultural) capital and on concepts of linguistic identification in Ukraine and Crimea at large, this study presents a picture of a community in which individuals may feel allegiances and commitments to different perceived ethnic groups and languages simultaneously.
Kulyk, V. (2007). The Demography of Language Practices and Attitudes in Ukraine. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 29(1/4), 295-326. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.vcu.edu/stable/41304509
While not specifically addressing language aside from the presumed static association with the nation-state, this article is nevertheless a very useful one to read in that it is seemingly another one of the few studies that employs the use of empirical data from a national survey in order to draw conclusions about the language situation within Ukraine. By looking at factors such as settlement type, age, gender, level of education, and economic well-being contrasted with personal views such as children's language, feelings of obligation towards a particular language, scope of use, language status, and predictions about the future, Kulyk is able to provide quantitative data in order to support claims made (without the benefit of research activity) by a vast number of other sources tackling language policy, identity, and language use within Ukraine.
Teper, Y. (2016) Official Russian identity discourse in light of the annexation of Crimea: national or imperial?, Post-Soviet Affairs, 32(4), 378-396. DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1076959.
This article presents an analysis of the framing of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which reveals a government policy aimed at reunifying the perceived greater Russian nation into one state. Data show that the Russian nation was largely described in ethnolinguistic and ethnocultural terms, and the official identity discourse was marked by the recasting and unprecedentedly strong reassertion of boundaries between the Russian and Ukrainian nations, legitimizing Russian claims to Crimea. However, the changing references to the crisis in Eastern Ukraine illustrate how the Kremlin’s rhetoric of shared identity is guided mainly by political concerns rather than an overarching nationalistic or ideological vision.
This paper presents the results of fieldwork conducted among the small Italian minority living in Kerch between 2012 and 2013. After introducing the socio-historical background and the current situation of this particular minority population, it examines the attitudes of community members towards the different language they encounter. Grounded in Bourdieu’s theoretical approach to symbolic (linguistic, social and cultural) capital and on concepts of linguistic identification in Ukraine and Crimea at large, this study presents a picture of a community in which individuals may feel allegiances and commitments to different perceived ethnic groups and languages simultaneously.
Kulyk, V. (2007). The Demography of Language Practices and Attitudes in Ukraine. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 29(1/4), 295-326. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.vcu.edu/stable/41304509
While not specifically addressing language aside from the presumed static association with the nation-state, this article is nevertheless a very useful one to read in that it is seemingly another one of the few studies that employs the use of empirical data from a national survey in order to draw conclusions about the language situation within Ukraine. By looking at factors such as settlement type, age, gender, level of education, and economic well-being contrasted with personal views such as children's language, feelings of obligation towards a particular language, scope of use, language status, and predictions about the future, Kulyk is able to provide quantitative data in order to support claims made (without the benefit of research activity) by a vast number of other sources tackling language policy, identity, and language use within Ukraine.
Teper, Y. (2016) Official Russian identity discourse in light of the annexation of Crimea: national or imperial?, Post-Soviet Affairs, 32(4), 378-396. DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1076959.
This article presents an analysis of the framing of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which reveals a government policy aimed at reunifying the perceived greater Russian nation into one state. Data show that the Russian nation was largely described in ethnolinguistic and ethnocultural terms, and the official identity discourse was marked by the recasting and unprecedentedly strong reassertion of boundaries between the Russian and Ukrainian nations, legitimizing Russian claims to Crimea. However, the changing references to the crisis in Eastern Ukraine illustrate how the Kremlin’s rhetoric of shared identity is guided mainly by political concerns rather than an overarching nationalistic or ideological vision.
Additional Resources to Annotate:
- Angermeyer, P. S. (2015). Indexicality and subjective perceptions of the linguistic landscape. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 232, 185–190. http://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2014-0012
- Bonfiglio, T. P. (2010). Mother tongues and nations. Berlin/Boston, DE: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Marshall, C. (2002). Post-Soviet Language Policy and the Language Utilization Patterns of Kyivan Youth. Language Policy, 1(3), 237-260.
- Kulyk, V. (2010). Ideologies of language use in post-Soviet Ukrainian media. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 201, 79-104.
- Osipian, A. L. & Osipian, A. L. (n.d.). Regional Diversity and Divided Memories in Ukraine. East European Politics & Societies, 26(3), 616-642.
- Arel, D. (2002). Interpreting "Nationality" and "Language" in the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Post-Soviet Affairs, 18(3), 213-249.
- Markowitz, L.P. & Peshkova, V. (2016) Anti-immigrant mobilization in Russia's regions: local movements and framing processes, Post-Soviet Affairs, 32(3), 272-298, DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1035526.
- Tarnopolsky, O. B., & Goodman, B. A. (2014). The ecology of language in classrooms at a university in eastern Ukraine. Language & Education: An International Journal, 28(4), 383-396. doi:10.1080/09500782.2014.890215.
- Bilaniuk, L. (2003). Gender, language attitudes, and language status in Ukraine. Language in Society, 32(1), 47-78.
- Goodman, B. (2013). Towards a Multilingual Future: The Ecology of Language at a University in Eastern Ukraine, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
- Kulyk, V. (2011). Beliefs about language status and corpus in focus group discussions on the Ukrainian language policy. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2011(212), pp. 69-89. doi:10.1515/ijsl.2011.047.
- Bowring, B. (2014). The Russian language in Ukraine: Complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building? Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Bocale, Paola. (2015). Italian, Ukrainian or Russian? Language and Identity in Crimea. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 36(6), 620-637.
- Laruelle, M. (2016) The three colors of Novorossiya, or the Russian nationalist mythmaking of the Ukrainian crisis, Post-Soviet Affairs, 32(1), 55-74, DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1023004.
- Charnysh, V. (2013). Analysis of current events: Identity mobilization in hybrid regimes: Language in Ukrainian politics. Nationalities Papers, 41(1), 1-14. doi:10.1080/00905992.2012.750288
- Wylegała, A. (2010). Minority language as identity factor: case study of young Russian speakers in Lviv. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 201, pp. 29-51. doi:10.1515/ijsl.2010.003
- Pavlenko, A. (Ed.). (2008). Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries. Clevedon, GBR: Channel View Publications.