Friday March 21, 2014 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)
Marta Szytmaniuk (Gdansk, Poland)
The aim of the lecture is to present the problem of bilingualism and status of the Russian language in Ukraine in the turn of 20th and 21st century. First of all, I would like to focus on specific historical conditioning of Ukrainian bilingualism. Secondly, I will introduce the main points of the language policy and analyze the language of the media in Ukraine. I will also share my research results. The data for this study was collected with the help of a survey I created and sent over to Ukrainians using different types of social media in 2011/2012. Both theoretical and practical parts show that Ukraine is not moving in the right direction in terms of language policy and is not building the prestige of national language and identity.
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