Contested Tongues - Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine

Klappentext Through a focus on mixed language and purism, the author examines the power dynamics of linguistic and cultural correction, through which people seek either to confer or to deny others social legitimacy. The author's examination of the rapid transformation of symbolic values in Ukraine challenges theories of language and social power that have as a rule been based on the experience of relatively stable societies. Zusammenfassung During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine! cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual...

Product details

• Authors: Laada Bilaniuk
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2006
• EAN: 9780801472794
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7279-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Culture and Society After Socialism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History