No. 1: Language Usage and Language Policy

Author(s): Juliane Besters-Dilger, Volodymyr Kulyk, Natalia Kudriavtseva, Anastasija Kostiučenko
Series Editor(s): Fabian Burkhardt, Ksenia Gatskova, Ivan Gomza, Guido Hausmann, Tetiana Kostiuchenko, Tetiana Kyselova, Serhiy Kudelia, Yulia Kurnyshova, Jeronim Perović
Series: Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
Issue: 1
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2023

The topic of this issue is Language Usage and Language Policy. Firstly, Juliane Besters-Dilger gives an overview of language policy in Ukraine since independence (1991); secondly, Volodymyr Kulyk analyses polls indicating a possible increased use of Ukrainian since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia; thirdly, Natalia Kudriavtseva discusses the motivations of the language shift to Ukrainian; lastly, Anastasija Kostiučenko re-evaluates ‘Surzhyk’ against the background of Ukrainian language policy in recent years and the drastic sociopolitical changes brought about by Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine.

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