Open AccessFrom a Dialect to the Status of National Language: Overcoming The Effects of Empire
Author(s) -
Olena Hlazkova
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
multilingual discourses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-1515
DOI - 10.29173/md16958
Subject(s) - ukrainian , empire , linguistics , history , political science , sociology , ancient history , philosophy
Following the view on the modern language problem in Ukraine as a result of a long war, this paper focuses on the language question which constitutes the anti-imperial Ukrainian counter discourse starting from the middle XIX century up to the present day and explores the development of nationalistic ideas in their close relationship to the language.