Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Essays on Education, Ideology, Literature, Practice, and the Media
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Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Essays on Education, Ideology, Literature, Practice, and the Media
About this book
This is the first such collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The post-Soviet period in Ukraine and Kazakhstan has been characterized not only by changes in the economic marketplace in the transition from communism to capitalism, but also in the linguistic marketplace. During the Soviet period, Russian was the primary language of schooling, media, and government administration in both countries, leading to widespread language shift away from their titular languages, especially among the educated urban elites. Since independence, Ukrainian and Kazakh, which occupied relatively peripheral positions in the Soviet-era marketplace, have been elevated to the status of national languages and institutionalized in government and schools, thus increasing their symbolic power. Nevertheless, the years since independence have also seen contentious debates around language. Employing various methodological tools ranging from surveys to critical discourse analysis of legislation, literary texts and social media products, the authors in this volume seek to demonstrate and explain how political relations and hegemonic ideologies have been reproduced and negotiated at both the macro-level in legislation on language and state-sponsored media channels and embodiments of political and linguistic ideologies in translations, as well as at the micro-level of everyday language practices, school choice, and discourses on social media platforms. Among the authors are Elise S. Ahn, Igor Danylenko, Bridget Goodman, Lada Kolomiyets, Svitlana Melnyk, Juldyz Smagulova, Yuliia Soroka, and Maryna Vardanian.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgement
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan
- Pen and Sword: Tracing the Ideological Dimension of Ukraine’s Language-in-Education Policy in Wartime
- Translation as Ideology: Nation-Building vs Colonization in Diasporic-Ukrainian and Soviet Literature for Young Adults
- Language and Social Inequalities in Ukraine: Monolingual and Bilingual Practices
- School Language Choice in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Emerging Educational Inequality
- Pro-change or Safeguarding the Status-Quo: Language Ideological Debates Surrounding the 2019 Ukrainian Orthography
- Deconstruction of Russia’s Newspeak in Ukrainian Humorous Translation and Digital Folklore
- Conclusion
- Our Authors
- Index