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Author:   Corinne A. Seals
Publisher:   Multilingual Matters
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.492kg
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9781788924993

ISBN 10:   1788924991
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Seals examines language and identity among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in diaspora in great depth, introducing for the first time in sociolinguistics the discourse of 'changing your mother tongue' which occurred throughout the narratives of the Ukrainians interviewed by her from 2009 to 2015. The result is a masterful study of language and identity among Ukrainians after the Orange Revolution and during a time of war. * Andrii Danylenko, Pace University, USA * This is a compelling text set against the backdrop of the 2014-2015 war in Ukraine. Complex questions on language, imagined identities, investment, and nationhood are addressed with great skill and exemplary scholarship. Corinne Seals has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary debates on language and identity. * Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Canada * Corinne Seals deftly combines fine-grained discourse analysis with a transnational perspective, shedding new light on the dynamics of language and identity construction in Ukraine and its diasporas. This is a valuable book for sociolinguists and regional scholars interested in the impact of the ongoing war on national ideologies and linguistic choices. * Laada Bilaniuk, University of Washington, USA * The author has included discussions of the theoretical approaches and concepts used throughout the text [...] these are brought to life by the numerous excerpts from participant interviews which are included throughout, enabling the reader to gain insights into the political and linguistic journeys made by participants in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. -- Sue Edwards, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand * TESOLANZ 29 * Choosing a Mother Tongue is a remarkable illustration of the current meta-discursive debate concerning language ideology in Ukraine [...] The volume gives us an opportunity to not only better and more fully understand the linguistic and cultural specificity of the language situation in Ukraine, but also allows a glimpse of the processes of identity construction in discourse and through discourse. -- Valentyna Ushchyna, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Language in Society 49 (2020) * Seals presents a multifaceted and elegantly cohesive depiction of the linguistic situation in Ukraine and its diaspora communities. In addition, though speaking about a specific people, she presents a nuanced picture of its individual members, successfully working around the problem of essentialization that typically accompanies this type of research. -- Tracey Adams, University of Texas at Austin, USA * LINGUIST List 31.2015 * Seals' book is an empirically rich, theoretically relevant and stylistically approachable contribution. It will be of value to scholars working on language and identity in post-soviet contexts, or contexts of migration, and to those interested in language shift and language maintenance. It also has an easy to read style, which makes it relevant to advanced scholars as well as those who are new to the field. -- Lydia Catedral, City University of Hong Kong * Language and Education, 2020 *

Seals examines language and identity among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in diaspora in great depth, introducing for the first time in sociolinguistics the discourse of 'changing your mother tongue' which occurred throughout the narratives of the Ukrainians interviewed by her from 2009 to 2015. The result is a masterful study of language and identity among Ukrainians after the Orange Revolution and during a time of war. * Andrii Danylenko, Pace University, USA * This is a compelling text set against the backdrop of the 2014-2015 war in Ukraine. Complex questions on language, imagined identities, investment, and nationhood are addressed with great skill and exemplary scholarship. Corinne Seals has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary debates on language and identity. * Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Canada * Corinne Seals deftly combines fine-grained discourse analysis with a transnational perspective, shedding new light on the dynamics of language and identity construction in Ukraine and its diasporas. This is a valuable book for sociolinguists and regional scholars interested in the impact of the ongoing war on national ideologies and linguistic choices. * Laada Bilaniuk, University of Washington, USA * The author has included discussions of the theoretical approaches and concepts used throughout the text [...] these are brought to life by the numerous excerpts from participant interviews which are included throughout, enabling the reader to gain insights into the political and linguistic journeys made by participants in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. -- Sue Edwards, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand * TESOLANZ 29 * As the bulk of the interviews [in the book] were conducted soon after Euromaidan and the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, most of the presented excerpts discuss the impact of these developments on the interviewees' identities and language ideologies. This impact has already been established in numerous survey-based studies demonstrating Ukrainian residents' increased identification, after the tumultuous events of 2014, with the Ukrainian nationality and native language, as well as their stronger embrace of Ukraine as one's homeland. The valuable addition of Seals's book to these findings is its vivid demonstration of an underlying motivation of the change. -- Volodymyr Kulyk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine * Harvard Ukrainian Studies 38, no. 1-2 * Choosing a Mother Tongue is a remarkable illustration of the current meta-discursive debate concerning language ideology in Ukraine [...] The volume gives us an opportunity to not only better and more fully understand the linguistic and cultural specificity of the language situation in Ukraine, but also allows a glimpse of the processes of identity construction in discourse and through discourse. -- Valentyna Ushchyna, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Language in Society 49 (2020) * Seals presents a multifaceted and elegantly cohesive depiction of the linguistic situation in Ukraine and its diaspora communities. In addition, though speaking about a specific people, she presents a nuanced picture of its individual members, successfully working around the problem of essentialization that typically accompanies this type of research. -- Tracey Adams, University of Texas at Austin, USA * LINGUIST List 31.2015 * Seals' book is an empirically rich, theoretically relevant and stylistically approachable contribution. It will be of value to scholars working on language and identity in post-soviet contexts, or contexts of migration, and to those interested in language shift and language maintenance. It also has an easy to read style, which makes it relevant to advanced scholars as well as those who are new to the field. -- Lydia Catedral, City University of Hong Kong * Language and Education, 2020 *

This is a compelling text set against the backdrop of the 2014-2015 war in Ukraine. Complex questions on language, imagined identities, investment, and nationhood are addressed with great skill and exemplary scholarship. Corinne Seals has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary debates on language and identity. * Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Canada * Seals examines language and identity among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in diaspora in great depth, introducing for the first time in sociolinguistics the discourse of `changing your mother tongue' which occurred throughout the narratives of the Ukrainians interviewed by her from 2009 to 2015. The result is a masterful study of language and identity among Ukrainians after the Orange Revolution and during a time of war. * Andrii Danylenko, Pace University, USA *

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Corinne A. Seals is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Heritage Language Policies Around the World (with S. Shah; 2017, Routledge) and Embracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts (with V. I. Olsen-Reeder; 2019, VU University Press). Her research interests include language and identity, language and politics and Ukrainian issues.

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