Bilingualism in Ukraine: Value or Challenge?
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Cím:
Bilingualism in Ukraine: Value or Challenge?
Létrehozó:
Csernicskó, István
Máté, Réka
Kiadó:
Vytautas Magnus University
Dátum:
2017
Téma:
HM Sociology / társadalomkutatás
PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature / szláv, balti, albán nyelvek és irodalom
Tartalmi leírás:
Several analyses have summarized the linguistic situation o
f 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 constru
cting 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 addit
ion 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 a
ttitude 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 l
anguage and the (free and independent) Ukrainian nation the same nowadays
strongly dominates in Ukraine.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
Article
PeerReviewed
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Formátum:
text
Azonosító:
Csernicskó, István and Máté, Réka (2017) Bilingualism in Ukraine: Value or Challenge? DARNIOJI DAUGIAKALBYSTE / SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM, 10. pp. 14-35. ISSN 2335-2019
Kapcsolat:
https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/sm-2017-0001
MTMT:3231908; doi:10.1515/sm-2017-0001