Defending borders and crossing boundaries
Ideologies of polylanguaging in interviews with bilingual Ukrainian youth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12738870 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra A Friedman (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 623-639 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Multilingualism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-0718 • E-ISSN: 1747-7530 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14790718.2021.1874386 |
| OpenAlex | W3125780216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
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 dialogic imagination: Four essays (C. Emerson and M. Holquist, Trans). University of Texas Press; 1984. Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics (C. Emerson, Ed. and Trans). University of Minnesota Press) concept of voice and Agha’s (Voice, footing, and enregisterment, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 15(1), 8–59) work on registers as social voices to explore the alignments that these young people take up vis-a-vis the ideologically-mediated voices that suržyk has traditionally indexed. Through a micro-level discourse analysis of both metadiscourses in which ideologies of linguistic boundary maintenance were explicitly articulated and intervieees’ crossing of these boundaries during the interviews, the analysis shows how these young people appropriated, resisted, or creatively exploited prevailing purist ideologies and considers implications for a possible re-evauation of suržyk as a normative practice
Dialogic · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Multilingualism · Normative · Pedagogy · Poetics · Political science · Sociology · Ukrainian · Digital Communication and Language · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy
The Dialogic Imagination
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Bilingualism as Ideology and Practice
Polylingual Languaging Around and Among Children and Adolescents
Ideologies, norms, and practices in youth poly-languaging
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
Metrolingualism
Multilingualism
Staging Linguistic Identities and Negotiating Monolingual Norms in Multiethnic School Settings
Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language
Contemporary Transformations of Local Linguistic Communities
Voice, Footing, Enregisterment
Syncretism
Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |