Wartime Education in Ukraine and its Impacts on Language Norms and Ideologies in Ukraine

• In Event: Languages and Language Ideologies in Wartime Ukraine

Abstract

The paper explores regional trends in education in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion, focusing on how war-related factors have shaped the language norms and ideologies, particularly concerning Ukrainian Russophones and other new speakers of Ukrainian. It shows that since the beginning of the full-scale war, non-state actors’ participation in language education has increased significantly, and argues that it has widened the boundaries of Ukrainian language norms, making the “deviations” from the norm, such as dialects, surzhyk, and colloquialisms more acceptable and, as such, new speakers of Ukrainian more legitimate speakers of Ukrainian. 

Author

• Anna Vozna, U of Ottawa (Canada)