[lg policy] Multilingualism and Language Policy in post-Soviet Ukraine: English, Ukrainian and Russian in Linguistic Landscapes

[Harold Schiffman]

SCHOLAR RESEARCH BRIEF:
Multilingualism and Language Policy in post-Soviet Ukraine:
English, Ukrainian and Russian in Linguistic Landscapes

This research examines language use in Linguistic Landscapes in a
medium size city in post-Soviet southeastern Ukraine. Linguistic
Landscapes represent various media, shop signs, advertisement posters,
billboards, official and private notices, etc. They reflect the
dynamics of political, economic and social transformations, and
demonstrate a complex negotiation of competing and coexisting local,
national and global discourses and ideologies. This investigation
explores how multilingual texts of publicly displayed signs transform
visual public spaces, and how these changes affect the local
population’s perception of language policy and language use.

Olga Bever, Ph.D.
The University of Arizona
Research Country: Ukraine
October 2011

More at: http://www.irex.org/sites/default/files/BeverSTG2011%20Final%20report.pdf

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