Maria Yelenevskaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 295413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Yelenevskaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Yelenevskaya |
| SIGNATURE | YELENEVSKAYA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7155-8755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linguistic Landscape as a Resource in Egap Courses: A Case Study
This article explores the incorporation of linguistic landscape (LL) studies into English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) courses, emphasizing its potential to enhance language learning through real-world engagement. This study highlights the growing interest in LL as a sociolinguistic phenomenon that reflects urban multilingualism and cultural dynamics. The goal of this article is to analyze pedagogical benefits of integrating LL into langu…
Innovation and Design in Multilingual Education
Global migration is reshaping demographics and increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in previously homogeneous communities (Lapp et al [...]
Diasporans’ Emotional Attitudes toward Foodways
In immigrant communities, food often carries significant emotional weight, symbolizing a connection to home, family, and identity. As immigrants settle into new countries, familiar dishes serve as comforting reminders of their roots, evoking memories of loved ones, celebrations, and daily life in their homeland. For many, cooking and sharing traditional foods offer solace and continuity in an environment where they may feel culturally isolated. I…
Introduction to the Special Issue Linguistic Practices in Heritage Language Acquisition
Linguistic practices in heritage language (HL) acquisition refer to the ways in which language is used, managed, and passed on within families, communities, or institutions to help children, adolescents, and young adults learn and maintain it
Everyday Linguistic and Cultural Practices of the Russophone Diaspora
The Russian language has evolved into a lingua franca in post-Soviet immigrant communities, prompting an analysis of its use in different domains. Everyday Linguistic and Cultural Practices of the Russophone Diaspora explores the language maintenance of Russian abroad, emphasizing the role of educational ventures and transnational communications facilitated by the internet. This book researches specific aspects of migrant life, including occupati…
A new life with a new language: Russophone immigrants’ reflections about language learning
Studies by various authors discuss challenges which immigrants face when adapting to a new linguistic environment. This project emphasizes the impact of language learning on identity and reveals cultural flexibility in attaining social justice in multicultural contexts. These insights suggest that language programs and policies should address both the practical needs of immigrants and the preservation of their cultural identities taking into acco…
Decolonization of the Post-Soviet Russian Language
The emergence and expansion of the Russophone diaspora on all continents around the world has fostered the growth of the use of the Russian language as a means of transnational communication and mutual support, while locally, Russophones outside Russia utilize it to meet their needs, including in the spheres of business, education, and culture. Drawing on interviews, written materials, and recorded discussions, this article examines the introspec…
Homemaking in the Russian-speaking Diaspora: Material Culture, Language and Identity
This volume serves as a significant contribution to the field of multilingualism and multiculturalism, offering a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis of the material culture of Russian-speaking migrants. While Western scholars have explored themes concerning the interplay of materiality with emotions and language use, there remains a notable gap in scholarship when it comes to Russian-speaking migrants. The book addresses this lacuna …
Homemaking in the Russian-speaking Diaspora: Material Culture, Language and Identity
Examines the material culture of Russian-speaking migrants Investigates human-object relations from a multidisciplinary vantage point Applies theories tested in fields as diverse as anthropology and sociology, consumer and market research, sociolinguistics and semiotics Draws on data from in-depth interviews and group discussions, photographs, social media and participant observation Looks at the experiences of Russian-speaking immigrants in a ra…
Linguistic pluricentrism and the Russian language
Can the Russian language be regarded as pluricentric since it is used in various countries and regions of the world where different varieties of the language have evolved? Indeed, in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and some other countries, Russian is used as the official language of state bodies and institutions. However, each of these countries has its own linguistic and cultural specificities of grammar, vocabulary and phonetics, which…
Conceptualizing Russian Food in Emigration: Foodways in Culture Maintenance and Adaptation
Food preparation and consumption is an essential part of culture. Leaving their homeland and finding themselves in a society with eating habits different from theirs, migrants face a dilemma of adapting their diets to those customary in their new place of residence or trying to maintain their food habits. Relying on the ethnographic method and applying thematic and critical discourse analyses, this article explores how Russian-speaking migrants d…
Introduction: Everyday Verbal and Cultural Practices of the Russian Speakers Abroad
The Russian-speaking space plays an important role for diasporans: starting a business, founding a company, seeking legal advice, or high-quality medical treatment is always more convenient when participants understand the nuances of communication in a common language. It facilitates the understanding of highly specialized fields such as legislation and medicine. In business, it makes presumptions and expectations transparent, and common values a…
Challenges of multilingualism across times and places
Chronotopic Identity Work: Sociolinguistic Analyses of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena in Time and Space Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg (eds) (2020) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 217 ISBN: 9781788926614 (hbk) ISBN: 9781788926607 (pbk) Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate Alison Phipps (2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 112 ISBN: 9781788924054 (hbk) ISBN: 9781788924047 (pbk) ISBN: 9781788924078 (ebk)
Teaching English in multilingual Israel: Who teaches whom and how. A review of recent research 2014–2020
This article presents research on teaching English in Israel, a vibrant multilingual country, in the period between 2014 and 2020. After a brief introduction to the current approach to English language teaching around the world, it outlines the studies investigating: (a) learners of English, (b) English teachers, and (c) methods that are used in the country for teaching English. We explore how various student populations, Arabs, Bedouins, Circass…
Teaching languages in multicultural surroundings: New tendencies
The purpose of this article is to help language teachers at all levels of education to understand in depth problems posed by linguistic superdiversity. Based on the study of scholarly literature, documents of educational bodies and the authors experience in language teaching in different countries, the article answers the question of how the teaching of world languages such as English and Russian is changing due to the recognition that their func…
Russian in the multilingual environment of three Asian countries
This article provides a comparative analysis of the sociolinguistic situation in three Asian countries, India, Japan, and South Korea, which are relatively less known as countries where the Russian language is used. The aim of the study is to assess the significance of the Russian language in these countries Russian-speaking diasporas, business sphere, and education, as well as to define the characteristics of its teaching in the cultural context…
Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Driving Russian Language Norms
Russian, as a pluricentric language, demonstrates differences in pronunciation, lexis, syntactical structures, and regional specificity of grammar deviations. The imposition of a norm, which is difficult even in the metropolis, is hardly possible in the diaspora, where host countries’ realities have a strong impact on the Russian language spoken outside of Russian borders. Even support of the Russian language turns into a double-edged sword, as R…
Introduction: Universality and specificity of emotions, with a focus on Russian
An inseparable part of human life, emotions were neglected in the academic discourse in the West for a long time, because scholars juxtaposed them with thought and reason. Yet educational research reveals that emotions are manifestations of high order intelligence and stimulate goal achievement, memory, and motivation in knowledge acquisition. Emotions are culturally and individually shaped. While some cultures consider open demonstration of feel…
The Soft Power of the Russian Language: Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies
Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across…
Global Russian: Between decline and revitalization
Like people, languages form hierarchies and compete. This theme comes up in political debates, in media discourse and in laypersons' attitudes as documented in narrative research. It is also reflec
An immigrant language in a multilingual state: Status and group competition (Russian in Israel)
This paper explores changes in the status and function of the Russian language in Israel since the 1989 when mass immigration from the former Soviet Union began. Due to a more tolerant attitude to multilingualism and the necessity to accommodate various needs of newcomers, Israeli establishment did not prevent the growing use of Russian in the public sphere. Relying on the monitoring of Russian–Israeli internet sites and participant observation, …
The Russian language outside the nation: Speakers and identities (Russian language and society)
If we view some periods in the history of a language as particularly interesting and challenging to study, then Russian is currently experiencing such a phase. Having lost its status as an official
When Time and Space Are No Longer the Same: Stories about Immigration Ko čas in prostor nista več to kar sta bila: Zgodbe o imigraciji
This paper analyzes personal narratives of immigrants to Israel from the countries of the former Soviet Union. Time is constituted by social activities, and its perception varies across cultures and changes over time. Growing up in a culture we internalize a specific system of social time characterized by regularities, cycles, and repetitions. This paper demonstrates that all of it changes when immigrants find themselves in a new culture. The los…
“You’ve Lived in X Too Long, when…”: A View of the World through Comic Lists (Expatriates’ Humour on Ru.net)
This article discusses social antecedents, patterns of reproduction and innovation, and the communicative function of the comic lists which use the pattern "You've lived in X too long, when" Originally borrowed from the English-language web sites, the idea of describing peculiarities of life in different countries has become popular on Ru.net among Russian-speaking expatriates and residents of Russia. The comic list format serves as a convenient …
Белова, О. В. Этнокультурные стереотипы в славянской народной традиции . [Belova, O.V. Ethnocultural Stereotypes in the Slavic Folk Tradition]
Ethnic stereotypes in the language and culture have been investigated by numerous scholars, yet this theme remains fascinating for researchers due to the diversity of local traditions, each forming a unique constellation of perceptions of and attitudes to the other.The universal semantic opposition of "my own people-the other" has a multitude of manifestations in different situations and contexts and research into its lingua-cultural antecedents …
My poor cousin, my feared enemy: The image of Arabs in personal narratives of former Soviets in Israel
The goal of this essay is to analyse some cultural antecedents of stereotyping of Arabs by immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The material used in the essay is part of larger project devoted to personal narratives of the immigrants of the 1990s. It is based on 115 in‐depth interviews. Unlike Oriental Jews who had lived side‐by‐side with Arabs before emigrating to Israel, Soviet Jews had had no contacts with them in the “Old Countr…
An immigrant language in a multilingual state: Status and group competition (Russian in Israel)
This paper explores changes in the status and function of the Russian language in Israel since the 1989 when mass immigration from the former Soviet Union began. Due to a more tolerant attitude to multilingualism and the necessity to accommodate various needs of newcomers, Israeli establishment did not prevent the growing use of Russian in the public sphere. Relying on the monitoring of Russian–Israeli internet sites and participant observation, …
Immigrants in the city: From exploration to domestication
This essay looks at immigrants’ integration into the economic and cultural life of Haifa, one of the largest Russian-speaking urban enclaves. Based on participant observation and auto-ethnography, it reflects on visual and acoustic signs of the ‘Russian’ presence. It further analyzes factors determining the newcomers’ choices of neighbourhood and subsequent intra-city migration. Immigrant-owned businesses catering to consumer tastes of ex-Soviets…
When Time and Space Are No Longer the Same: Stories about Immigration Ko čas in prostor nista več to kar sta bila: Zgodbe o imigraciji
This paper analyzes personal narratives of immigrants to Israel from the countries of the former Soviet Union. Time is constituted by social activities, and its perception varies across cultures and changes over time. Growing up in a culture we internalize a specific system of social time characterized by regularities, cycles, and repetitions. This paper demonstrates that all of it changes when immigrants find themselves in a new culture. The los…
From 'Muteness' to Eloquence: Immigrants' Narratives about Languages
Immigration mobilises laypeople's awareness of language. When immigrants begin to learn a new language, comparisons between the mother tongue and a new language are inevitable. If learning occurs simultaneously with entering a new language community, speakers become more sensitive to the cultural and social implications that multilingualism involves. This study is devoted to personal narratives of immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union…
My poor cousin, my feared enemy: The image of Arabs in personal narratives of former Soviets in Israel
The goal of this essay is to analyse some cultural antecedents of stereotyping of Arabs by immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The material used in the essay is part of larger project devoted to personal narratives of the immigrants of the 1990s. It is based on 115 in‐depth interviews. Unlike Oriental Jews who had lived side‐by‐side with Arabs before emigrating to Israel, Soviet Jews had had no contacts with them in the “Old Countr…
How to Outsmart the System: Immigrants’ Trickster Stories Wie man das System austrickst: Immigranten erzählen
This essay investigates attitudes to the law on the part of immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel and concerns the problems at the crossroads of legal anthropology, folklore, and immigration studies. Brought up in a totalitarian state, Soviet citizens were not law-abiding. The law was seen as an instrument of suppression used by the state against an individual. Circumventing it was considered to be both moral and justified. Immigratio…
Language as a Reflection of Ideology in Russia
Research problems that were censored in the USSR have now come to light, among them the influence of Soviet ideology on the Russian language and the mentality of the speakers. The work reviewed in this essay analyses the role of the Soviet ideological jargon in the creation of a ‘new type’ of personality. The author discusses why the language preventing straightforward expression survived the Soviet political system and still affects communicatio…
Ours Abroad” As a Theme of Humor on Ru.net: Changing Values, Competing Loyalties
Drawing on the material of humor portals, immigrant community sites, live journals and discussion forums of Ru.net, this essay analyzes how mass emigration of the first post-Soviet decades is reflected in jokelore. The advent of Ru.net and increased mobility of the population made Russian humor transnational in terms of production and dissemination. Although anekdot has retained its role as the most popular type of verbal jokelore, amusing person…
Белова, О. В. Этнокультурные стереотипы в славянской народной традиции . [Belova, O.V. Ethnocultural Stereotypes in the Slavic Folk Tradition]
Ethnic stereotypes in the language and culture have been investigated by numerous scholars, yet this theme remains fascinating for researchers due to the diversity of local traditions, each forming a unique constellation of perceptions of and attitudes to the other.The universal semantic opposition of "my own people-the other" has a multitude of manifestations in different situations and contexts and research into its lingua-cultural antecedents …
Culture-Specific Meaning in Personal Narratives
Homo sapiens has been defined as the creature who "makes sense,"and social sciences and humanities are all preoccupied with different aspects of meaning. The anthropologist Ulf Hannerz emphasizes the importance of sense-making, which occurs constantly through experience, interpretation, contemplation and imagination. The study of culture for anthropologists, therefore, is above all the study of meanings which people create, and which create peopl…
Immigrants in the city: From exploration to domestication
This essay looks at immigrants’ integration into the economic and cultural life of Haifa, one of the largest Russian-speaking urban enclaves. Based on participant observation and auto-ethnography, it reflects on visual and acoustic signs of the ‘Russian’ presence. It further analyzes factors determining the newcomers’ choices of neighbourhood and subsequent intra-city migration. Immigrant-owned businesses catering to consumer tastes of ex-Soviets…
“You’ve Lived in X Too Long, when…”: A View of the World through Comic Lists (Expatriates’ Humour on Ru.net)
This article discusses social antecedents, patterns of reproduction and innovation, and the communicative function of the comic lists which use the pattern "You've lived in X too long, when" Originally borrowed from the English-language web sites, the idea of describing peculiarities of life in different countries has become popular on Ru.net among Russian-speaking expatriates and residents of Russia. The comic list format serves as a convenient …
Global Russian: Between decline and revitalization
Like people, languages form hierarchies and compete. This theme comes up in political debates, in media discourse and in laypersons' attitudes as documented in narrative research. It is also reflec
An immigrant language in a multilingual state: Status and group competition (Russian in Israel)
This paper explores changes in the status and function of the Russian language in Israel since the 1989 when mass immigration from the former Soviet Union began. Due to a more tolerant attitude to multilingualism and the necessity to accommodate various needs of newcomers, Israeli establishment did not prevent the growing use of Russian in the public sphere. Relying on the monitoring of Russian–Israeli internet sites and participant observation, …
The Russian language outside the nation: Speakers and identities (Russian language and society)
If we view some periods in the history of a language as particularly interesting and challenging to study, then Russian is currently experiencing such a phase. Having lost its status as an official
When Time and Space Are No Longer the Same: Stories about Immigration Ko čas in prostor nista več to kar sta bila: Zgodbe o imigraciji
This paper analyzes personal narratives of immigrants to Israel from the countries of the former Soviet Union. Time is constituted by social activities, and its perception varies across cultures and changes over time. Growing up in a culture we internalize a specific system of social time characterized by regularities, cycles, and repetitions. This paper demonstrates that all of it changes when immigrants find themselves in a new culture. The los…
The Soft Power of the Russian Language: Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies
Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across…
Teaching languages in multicultural surroundings: New tendencies
The purpose of this article is to help language teachers at all levels of education to understand in depth problems posed by linguistic superdiversity. Based on the study of scholarly literature, documents of educational bodies and the authors experience in language teaching in different countries, the article answers the question of how the teaching of world languages such as English and Russian is changing due to the recognition that their func…
Russian in the multilingual environment of three Asian countries
This article provides a comparative analysis of the sociolinguistic situation in three Asian countries, India, Japan, and South Korea, which are relatively less known as countries where the Russian language is used. The aim of the study is to assess the significance of the Russian language in these countries Russian-speaking diasporas, business sphere, and education, as well as to define the characteristics of its teaching in the cultural context…
Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Driving Russian Language Norms
Russian, as a pluricentric language, demonstrates differences in pronunciation, lexis, syntactical structures, and regional specificity of grammar deviations. The imposition of a norm, which is difficult even in the metropolis, is hardly possible in the diaspora, where host countries’ realities have a strong impact on the Russian language spoken outside of Russian borders. Even support of the Russian language turns into a double-edged sword, as R…
Introduction: Universality and specificity of emotions, with a focus on Russian
An inseparable part of human life, emotions were neglected in the academic discourse in the West for a long time, because scholars juxtaposed them with thought and reason. Yet educational research reveals that emotions are manifestations of high order intelligence and stimulate goal achievement, memory, and motivation in knowledge acquisition. Emotions are culturally and individually shaped. While some cultures consider open demonstration of feel…
Teaching English in multilingual Israel: Who teaches whom and how. A review of recent research 2014–2020
This article presents research on teaching English in Israel, a vibrant multilingual country, in the period between 2014 and 2020. After a brief introduction to the current approach to English language teaching around the world, it outlines the studies investigating: (a) learners of English, (b) English teachers, and (c) methods that are used in the country for teaching English. We explore how various student populations, Arabs, Bedouins, Circass…
Homemaking in the Russian-speaking Diaspora: Material Culture, Language and Identity
This volume serves as a significant contribution to the field of multilingualism and multiculturalism, offering a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis of the material culture of Russian-speaking migrants. While Western scholars have explored themes concerning the interplay of materiality with emotions and language use, there remains a notable gap in scholarship when it comes to Russian-speaking migrants. The book addresses this lacuna …
Homemaking in the Russian-speaking Diaspora: Material Culture, Language and Identity
Examines the material culture of Russian-speaking migrants Investigates human-object relations from a multidisciplinary vantage point Applies theories tested in fields as diverse as anthropology and sociology, consumer and market research, sociolinguistics and semiotics Draws on data from in-depth interviews and group discussions, photographs, social media and participant observation Looks at the experiences of Russian-speaking immigrants in a ra…
Linguistic pluricentrism and the Russian language
Can the Russian language be regarded as pluricentric since it is used in various countries and regions of the world where different varieties of the language have evolved? Indeed, in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and some other countries, Russian is used as the official language of state bodies and institutions. However, each of these countries has its own linguistic and cultural specificities of grammar, vocabulary and phonetics, which…
Conceptualizing Russian Food in Emigration: Foodways in Culture Maintenance and Adaptation
Food preparation and consumption is an essential part of culture. Leaving their homeland and finding themselves in a society with eating habits different from theirs, migrants face a dilemma of adapting their diets to those customary in their new place of residence or trying to maintain their food habits. Relying on the ethnographic method and applying thematic and critical discourse analyses, this article explores how Russian-speaking migrants d…
Introduction: Everyday Verbal and Cultural Practices of the Russian Speakers Abroad
The Russian-speaking space plays an important role for diasporans: starting a business, founding a company, seeking legal advice, or high-quality medical treatment is always more convenient when participants understand the nuances of communication in a common language. It facilitates the understanding of highly specialized fields such as legislation and medicine. In business, it makes presumptions and expectations transparent, and common values a…
Challenges of multilingualism across times and places
Chronotopic Identity Work: Sociolinguistic Analyses of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena in Time and Space Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg (eds) (2020) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 217 ISBN: 9781788926614 (hbk) ISBN: 9781788926607 (pbk) Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate Alison Phipps (2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 112 ISBN: 9781788924054 (hbk) ISBN: 9781788924047 (pbk) ISBN: 9781788924078 (ebk)
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