Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	ibidem
Buchreihe	:	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	16. 10. 2024
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
Gewicht	:	312 g
ISBN	:	9783838219493
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Dr. Natalia Kudriavtseva is Professor of Translation and Slavic Studies at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. She is also a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. Kudriavtseva was a fellow at the School for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris (2023), Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst (2022-2023) and Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study in Greifswald (2022). She has been a member of editorial boards of the Ideology and Politics Journal, Іноземна філологія (Foreign Philology) as well as Актуальні проблеми духовності (Actual Problems of Mind) and has written for the Kennan Focus Ukraine blog and Germany-based Ukraine-Analysen as well as Ukrainian Analytical Digest.

Produktinformation

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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.

Pressestimmen

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“The volume is an exceptional exploration of the intricate relationship between language and power within the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. At a time when scholarly attention to the study of language situated in specific geographical contexts is limited, this collection fills a critical gap by exploring the language dynamics and its role in reflecting and reinforcing existing power structures in two post-colonial nations, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The six contributions in this volume offer compelling insights into the constructive role of language in shaping social structures, identities, and political discourses. Employing a variety of methodological approaches, from surveys to critical discourse analysis, the authors skillfully highlight the complex interplay between linguistic practices and political dynamics, emphasizing the need for in-depth research on language, identity and power in societies undergoing rapid social and political transformations.”
—Olga Maxwell, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Australia
 “To study language in use is to study power in practice. The contributors to this volume open with this premise—and then run with it. Departing from common analyses of language politics in the former Soviet Bloc, which often focus on conflicts over which language to speak, the authors turn their attention to how, where, and with what effects language is actually used, played with, contested, and transformed. Readers are thus not only treated to incisive analyses of legislation, or surveys that evidence significant linguo-demographic shifts, but also introduced to sites of ideological (re)production and negotiation where the socio-political work of language takes place. We are taken into classrooms and onto battlefields (physical and virtual); we are introduced to urban bilinguals and rural migrants, thought leaders and jokesters, and even troops of TikTokers debating the merits of spelling reforms. We are invited to ponder the ideologies motivating translations of a young adult novel, and to deconstruct—and then parody—Russian ‘newspeak’ in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The result is a sonic and semiotic landscape of Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion, and in the heady year to follow. This volume is indispensable reading for those who want to understand the role language and language politics actually play in the post-Soviet space, such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan.”
—Deborah Jones, Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

Deine Buchhandlung

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