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Hanna Ulunova; Luibov Spivak; Olena Starynska – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study addressed the language in professional communication and national identity of civil servants-bilinguals in the Ukrainian border oblasts with Russia. It was empirically determined that the civil servants mainly use the Ukrainian language in professional communication with the users of civil services, but with colleagues, the Russian…
Descriptors: Government Employees, Native Language, Ukrainian, Bilingualism
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Seals, Corinne A.; Beliaeva, Natalia – Language Policy, 2023
The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call "Aspirational FLP"--when the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Language Usage, Native Language
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Uladzimir K. Slabin – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Scholars as exemplars and their linked eponyms play a significant role in education. Since the discovery of the periodic law in 1869, perceptions of Mendeleev and his eponyms may have shifted. With the aim of assessing the historical and current portrayal of Mendeleev and his eponyms in chemistry textbooks and on the Internet, content analysis of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Education, Scientific Principles, Textbooks
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Tanya Voinova – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
The war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has led to a significant civilian involvement in Israel, particularly among immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who began to provide humanitarian assistance, including interpreting. Highlighting the interrelation between translation and migration, I argue that the war strongly affects…
Descriptors: Russian, Translation, Foreign Countries, War
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Tovares, Alla V. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article investigates YouTube metalinguistic comments about language varieties in Ukraine as a "light" practice to demonstrate how knowledge and identities are negotiated online against the backdrop of larger sociopolitical discourses that circulate in and about Ukraine. This work adds to our understanding of online, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, Language Variation, Identification (Psychology)
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Friedman, Debra A. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This paper analyses adolescent Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals' stances towards polylanguaging as evidenced in their talk about and use of "suržyk," a stigmatised polylingual practice that combines features from Ukrainian and Russian. Drawing from group interviews with 39 Ukrainian young people (aged 14-15), it uses Bakhtin's ("The…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Russian, Ukrainian
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Kudriavtseva, Natalia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
In this study on language ideologies and multilingualism in Ukraine, I start from Geeraerts approach, which identifies two cultural models of linguistic standardisation: rationalist and romantic. Drawing on this typology, I show that the present-day ideology is a largely distorted version of the romantic model that transforms into linguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Russian, Language of Instruction
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Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The article expands the debate about the interaction and conflict of linguistic commodification with other values attached to a language. It interrogates Russian dominant discourse produced between 2010 and 2015, focusing on how it attributes the values of "pride" and "profit" to the Russian language in three transnational…
Descriptors: Russian, Commercialization, Semantics, Power Structure
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Homonyuk, Olena; Avramenko, Natalia – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2017
Professional broadcasting of future medical foreign workers in the medical sector is a compulsory component of their professional readiness. The diversity of professional broadcasting functions of foreign students, the skillful use of the entire range of speech functionality, its external expressive attributability of speech; these are the most…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Students
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Solodka, Anzhelika; Perea, Luis – Arab World English Journal, 2018
Compliments as speech acts have the reflection and expression of cultural values. Many of the values reflected through compliments are personal appearance, new acquisitions, possessions, talents and skills. It is especially important in linguistic interaction between people. This research aims to analyze the speech acts of complimenting in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Acts, Cultural Influences, Values
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Akbari, Neda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This study focuses on lexical diversity and the use of academic and lower frequency words in essays written by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students enrolled in Years 1 and 2 at the undergraduate university level. The purpose of this study is to find out the extent to which EFL students become more proficient in their use of academic and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Essays, Word Frequency, Undergraduate Students
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Bocale, Paola – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper presents the results of fieldwork conducted among the small Italian minority living in Kerch, a coastal town in Crimea, between 2012 and 2013. After introducing the socio-historical background and the current situation of the minority, it presents and discusses the attitudes of members of the community towards the different languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Native Language, Language Dominance
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Friedman, Debra A. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2016
Drawing upon video recordings from two fifth-grade Ukrainian classrooms and interviews with children four years later, this paper examines these classrooms as sites for socializing learners into an "imagined community" of Ukrainian speakers, the extent to which children took up identities as members of this community, and the potential…
Descriptors: Ukrainian, Elementary School Students, Interviews, Multilingualism
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Polese, Abel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The end of the cold war prompted most of the former Soviet republics to face ethnic issues that had remained latent or intangible for decades. Whilst some ethnic groups were actively campaigning for their rights, some others seemed uninterested in being represented politically. The recent theory of hot and cold ethnicity has been conceived to…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Ethnic Groups
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Csernicskó, István; Laihonen, Petteri – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
From the early twentieth century to the present day, Transcarpathia has belonged to several states: the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and finally to Ukraine. The status of what counts as a minority and a majority language has changed each time the state affiliation has been changed. Based on…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Dialects, Language Minorities
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