Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins

Overlapping ideologies of language and identity in Zakarpattia

Bibliographic Data

ID4178535
AuthorsJennifer Dickinson (University of Vermont, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume2010
Issue201
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl.2010.004
OpenAlexW1987032757
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

The Zakarpattia region in southwestern Ukraine is stereotyped as an area of great linguistic diversity, with a number of discrete ethnic groups speaking their eponymous languages, as well as a range of local Slavic varieties that are variably perceived as dialects of Ukrainian or deployed as evidence of long-standing links to another Slavic language, Rusyn. In this article, I focus on the ways in which different language ideologies mediate language use, and perceptions of that use by Zakarpattia residents. In the first half of the article, I focus on the conceptualization of language and ethnicity as being in natural alignment as one of the key ideological positions that unite differing political orientations toward the classification of languages in Zakarpattia. In the second half of the article, I describe a set of local language ideologies and consider how these ideologies govern the interpretation of everyday language use between members of groups that are variably defined as similar or different depending on context

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Conceptualization · Ethnic group · Ideology · Language ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Slavic languages · Sociology · Ukrainian · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · History · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy

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