The impact of ideologies on the standardization of modern Ukrainian
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Galina Yavorska
Abstract
The contemporary trends in the processes of codification of Ukrainian are influenced by numerous different factors. Today's rise of activity in the sphere of language reform is an attempt to resolve rather old cultural and ideological conflicts. Ukrainian linguistic purism mostly manifests itself not in the elimination of lexical borrowings, but in a negative attitude toward bookish elements on a stylistic level. At the same time, in orthography, the struggle for language purity is concentrated on the transliteration of borrowings from Greek, Latin, and other European languages. Whether they focus on the redistribution of stylistic variants or variants of loanword spelling, the language ideologies discussed in this article symbolically underscore cultural distances. An analysis of cultural models and language ideologies associated with them bears witness to the particular role of the romantic and European models in the history of Standard Ukrainian. These models are aimed at reaffirming and consolidating the separatist, divergent function of Standard Ukrainian as one of the fundamental means of supporting the Ukrainian national identity.
© 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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Articles in the same Issue
- Language in times of transition: an introduction
- Language practices and the language situation in Kharkiv: examining the concept of legitimate language in relation to identification and utility
- Minority language as identity factor: case study of young Russian speakers in Lviv
- Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins: overlapping ideologies of language and identity in Zakarpattia
- Ideologies of language use in post-Soviet Ukrainian media
- Language in the balance: the politics of non-accommodation on bilingual Ukrainian–Russian television shows
- Conflicting abstractions: language groups in language politics in Ukraine
- The impact of ideologies on the standardization of modern Ukrainian
- Book reviews
