Open AccessМоўны сорам беларусаў (сацыялінгвістычны аналіз)
Author(s) -
Уладзіслаў Іваноў
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acta albaruthenica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1898-8091
DOI - 10.32612/uw.18988091.2020.20.pp.169-183
Subject(s) - shame , phenomenon , linguistics , sociology , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy
The article analyzes the phenomenon of linguistic shame among Belarusians from the sociolinguistic point of view. The topic is new in Belarusian socio¬linguistics and linguistics in general, as it was previously was considered mainly as a mere marginalization of the language. The study of linguistic shame is based mainly on Belarusian material: analysis of works by Belarusian writers who described the phenomenon before linguists, analysis of the Belarusian president's discourse on the Belarusian language and interviews with Belarusian men who served in the Soviet-era army. The interview reveals an interesting gender aspect of the phenomenon of linguistic shame: for the first time the Soviet army is analyzed as an additional structure that imposed shame on Belarusian men for their language and culture. Also, the study is based on external experiences of this phenomenon: for example, the well-known phenomenon of auto-odi or linguistic hate of oneself of Catalans or linguistic shame of Ukrainians.