Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 2008
256 pages
978-1-84769-088-3 (ISBN)
Description
The dissolution of the USSR has created conditions for a unique sociolinguistic experiment, in which fourteen countries, previously united by the same language and political system, engaged in a nation-building process, creating new linguistic regimes. Two decades later, how did these countries fare in their struggle to initiate a shift from Russian to the titular languages? Which ones succeeded and which ones restored Russian as an official language? How did they go about articulating the rights of linguistic minorities? Did Russian give way to the new lingua franca, English? This collection offers answers to these and many other questions through detailed analyses of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-84769-088-3 (9781847690883)
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Aneta Pavlenko
Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
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11/2008
Multilingual Matters
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Person
Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She has lectured widely in Europe, North America, and Japan, and published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism and second language acquisition. She is an author of Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-author of Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition (with Scott Jarvis; Routledge, 2008), editor of Bilingual Minds (Multilingual Matters, 2006) and co-editor of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2004).
Content
Preface - Aneta Pavlenko
Language Management and Language Problems in Belarus: Education and Beyond - Markus Giger and Marian Sloboda
A Tense and Shifting Balance: Bilingualism and Education in Ukraine - Laada Bilaniuk and Svitlana Melnyk
Uneasy Compromise: Language and Education in Moldova - Matthew H. Ciscel
Language and Education Orientations in Lithuania: A Cross-Baltic Perspective Post- EU Accession - Tatjana Bulajeva and Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Estonianization Efforts Post-independence - Mart Rannut
Language Policies of Kazakhization and their Influence on Language Attitudes and Use - Juldyz Smagulova
Multilingualism, Russian Language and Education in Kyrgyzstan - Abdykadyr Orusbaev, Arto Mustajoki & Ekaterina Protassova
Language and Education Policies in Tajikistan - Mehrinisso Nagzibekova
Language Management and Language Problems in Belarus: Education and Beyond - Markus Giger and Marian Sloboda
A Tense and Shifting Balance: Bilingualism and Education in Ukraine - Laada Bilaniuk and Svitlana Melnyk
Uneasy Compromise: Language and Education in Moldova - Matthew H. Ciscel
Language and Education Orientations in Lithuania: A Cross-Baltic Perspective Post- EU Accession - Tatjana Bulajeva and Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Estonianization Efforts Post-independence - Mart Rannut
Language Policies of Kazakhization and their Influence on Language Attitudes and Use - Juldyz Smagulova
Multilingualism, Russian Language and Education in Kyrgyzstan - Abdykadyr Orusbaev, Arto Mustajoki & Ekaterina Protassova
Language and Education Policies in Tajikistan - Mehrinisso Nagzibekova
