Mapping Identities: Language Politics and Diversity in Ukraine
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2025
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Vardanian, Maryna
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Review of : Kiss, Nadiya, and Monika Wingender, editors. Contested Language Diversity in Wartime Ukraine: National Minorities, Language Biographies, and Linguistic Landscape. Ibidem-Verlag, 2025. The title of the volume Contested Language Diversity in Wartime Ukraine immediately speaks to the urgency and relevance of its content. In light of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, questions surrounding language, identity, and power have intensified and gained new dimensions. Language has emerged not only as a cultural and communicative medium but also as a battleground for ideological and political confrontation. As language is increasingly perceived as a marker of allegiance, the shifting dynamics of linguistic practices in Ukraine call for rigorous academic investigation – an effort this volume undertakes with depth and breadth.
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Language Policy, Linguistic Landscape, Language Biographies, Russification, review
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Vardanian M. Mapping Identities: Language Politics and Diversity in Ukraine / Maryna Vardanian // Мова: класичне - модерне - постмодерне. - 2025. - Вип. 11 (спеціальний випуск). - С. 208-226. - https://doi.org/10.18523/lcmp2522-9281.2025.11.208-226