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Laada Bilaniuk, Contested tongues: Language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2007

Anna Verschik
Anna Verschik
Affiliation:
Department of Estonian Philology, Tallinn University, Narva Rd. 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia, anna.verschik@tlu.ee
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Laada Bilaniuk, Contested tongues: Language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 230. Pb $ 24.95, Hb. $59.95.

This is a comprehensive ethnographic study of an immensely complex language situation in the post-Soviet Ukraine. Bilaniuk discusses subtle matters, such as language ideologies, the struggle over status, compromise strategies, and highly stigmatized mixed varieties called surzhik, in a manner that makes the book accessible to nonspecialists in the field of sociolinguistics.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 481 - 482
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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