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Languages and Language Ideologies in Wartime Ukraine

Sun, November 23, 12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST), -

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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine which began on February 24, 2022 set in motion processes that brought about radical changes in Ukrainian citizens’ ethnolinguistic identity and language use. The popular indignation at Russia’s full-fledged aggression, its troops’ utmost brutality, and its population’s predominant support for the war contributed to the consolidation of Ukrainian national identity and the wholehearted embrace of the national language. These new dynamics greatly expanded and accelerated the processes that had begun after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and instigation of a separatist conflict in the Donbas. The proposed panel will deal with different facets of Ukraine's wartime language landscape, from the continued shift away from Russian in communicative practice to changed perceptions of language and its particular varieties in education to representations of Ukrainian, Russian and surzhyk on social media. It will bring together scholars from political science, anthropoligy and education studies for a comprehensive discussion of complex language use and language ideologies in Ukraine in time of existential war against the imperialist Russia.

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