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The ECMI Library is an independent collection of books, journals, and grey literature of more than 3,000 items covering many aspects of minority issues. The highly specialized collection offers public access to a variety of materials in more than twenty languages on interethnic relations, language and cultural diversity issues and ethnic conflict in Europe.
The Library includes a useful reference section and a considerable number of published and unpublished reports, and is especially strong in the area of minority protection with regards to international law. The ECMI Library is also unique in that it includes an ever-growing number of annual reports of Ombudsman offices around the world, which provide insight into the human rights situation in many countries. Current periodical and newspaper subscriptions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ECMI research, and reference services are provided both in-house and for the general public.
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| Author |
Bilaniuk, Laada |
|---|---|
| Title | Contested Tongues : Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | |
| Subject | 1. Ukraine-Languages-Political aspects. 2. Ukraine-Languages-Social aspects. 3. Language and culture-Ukraine. 4. Sociolinguistics-Ukraine. 5. Languages in contact-Ukraine. 6. Multilingualism-Ukraine. 7. Ukrainian language-Social aspects. 8. Russian language-Social aspects-Ukraine. |
| Publisher | Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | xiv, 230 |
| Description | During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. The author explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual country where the two main languages are closely related but their statuses are hotly contested. According to the author, social divisions in Ukraine are historically rooted, ideologically constructed, and inseparable from linguistic practice. She questions what 'Ukrainian' and 'Russian' mean to different people, and how the boundaries between these categories may be blurred in unstable times. The author's examination of the rapid transformation of symbolic values in Ukraine challenges theories of language and social power that have as a rule been based on the experience of relatively stable societies. |
| Type | Book |
| Note | Includes bibliography and index. CONTENTS: Introduction / Language Paradoxes and Ideologies of Correction / Lives of Language: Individual Motivations, Practices, and Symbolic Power in a Changing Social Order / Language at the Threshold: A History of Ideological Categories and Corrections / Surzhyk: A History of Linguistic Transgressions / Correction, Criticism, and the Struggle over Status / Concealing Tensions and Mediating Pluralisms / Epilogue: The Language of Ukraine's Orange Revolution / Appendix: A Comparison of Ukrainian and Russian / References / Index |
| Language | English |
| Series | Culture & Society after Socialism |
| Identifier | 9780801472794 |
| Call No. |
949.71 |
| Location |
Library |
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