Publications

Publication details [#53626]

Shumlianskyi, Stanislav. 2010. Conflicting abstractions: language groups in language politics in Ukraine. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (201) : 135–161.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language maintenance | language politics | language status | language use

Language as a subject

Russian | Ukrainian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study demonstrates that Ukrainian language conflicts not only lie in divergent language protection agendas of language grouping from the perspective of one language, Russian or Ukrainian, but in the competition regarding the very identity and even subsistence of the represented groups.