Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries

by Pavlenko, Aneta

• ISBN13: 9781847690876
• ISBN10: 1847690874
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-05
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

"The dissolution of the USSR created conditions for a unique sociolinguistic experiment in which fourteen countries, previously united by the same language and political system, were 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Multi-lingualism in post-Soviet countries : language revival, language removal, and sociolinguistic theory	p. 1
Language management and language problems in Belarus : education and beyond	p. 41
A tense and shifting balance : bilingualism and education in Ukraine	p. 66
Uneasy compromise : language and education in Moldova	p. 99
Language and education orientations in Lithuania : a cross-Baltic perspective post-EU accession	p. 122
Estonianization efforts post-independence	p. 149
Language policies of Kazakhization and their influence on language attitudes and use	p. 166
Multilingualism, Russian language and education in Kyrgyzstan	p. 202
Language and education policies in Tajikistan	p. 227
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