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The Language of Good People or a Brainless Mixture: Language Attitudes and Perception of Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Speech in Kyiv.

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Title/Author:	The Language of Good People or a Brainless Mixture: Language Attitudes and Perception of Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Speech in Kyiv./
Author:	Ellett, Matthew.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-03A.
Subject:	Slavic studies. -
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ISBN:	9798664755985

The Language of Good People or a Brainless Mixture: Language Attitudes and Perception of Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Speech in Kyiv.
Ellett, Matthew.

The Language of Good People or a Brainless Mixture: Language Attitudes and Perception of Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Speech in Kyiv. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 266 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020.

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The present study offers an examination of the attitudes and perceptions of mixed Ukrainian-Russian speech, commonly labeled as Surzhyk, of residents of Kyiv. Bilaniuk (2005, 2016), among others, views Surzhyk as both a linguistic and ideological phenomenon, with structural linguistic foundations (Flier, 1998; Del Gaudio, 2010; Kent, 2010; Masenko, 2011), as well as strong ideological foundations (Romanova et al, 2006; Moser, 2016). Lambert (1967), Bilaniuk (2005), and Preston (2010) have shown that stereotypes about groups of people, such as speakers of mixed varieties, can be expressed through attitudes about speakers' use of language. As well, Preston (1989, 1998, 2002, 2011) argues that the perceptions and attitudes of non-linguists are critical to understanding language varieties. Because of its ideological nature, what is considered Surzhyk is likely best identified from non-linguists, rather than linguists. This dissertation presents the findings of three studies conducted on the responses to a language survey. The survey was made up of four parts: 1) demographic and language background questions, 2) self-reported situational language use questions, 3) a series of audio samples followed by language identification and scalar questions about the speakers, and 4) open-ended questions about respondent perceptions of mixed speech. The initial study involved a quantitative analysis of responses to the survey. First, was an analysis of language perception and identification results, to determine if respondents would identify speech as Surzhyk. While some respondents did identify mixed speech as Surzhyk, the majority identified the speech as conversational Ukrainian. Second, was an analysis of the scalar evaluation questions about the speakers to identify respondents' implicit language attitudes. The results show that for all respondents, the more non-standard the speech, the more negatively it was evaluated, particularly for Superiority attributes. However, the overall judgements are not strongly negative. The second study consisted of a qualitative analysis of responses to the survey. This involved a content analysis of the open-ended answers to direct questions on attitudes and perceptions of language mixing in Kyiv and Surzhyk, in order to understand respondents' explicit language attitudes. A number of themes were derived from the results indicating strongly negative attitudes towards mixing and Surzhyk among all respondents, very closely mirroring ideological stigmatization found in academic literature. Answers focused on the "badness" of non-standard speech, and of speakers' lack of education.In addition, two smaller studies were conducted. One was a quantitative analysis of respondent self-reported language use, which found that respondents generally used more monolingual speech in close contexts, and more multilingual speech in distant contexts. The second was a linguistic analysis of the speech in the conversation samples, comparing the speech to descriptions of Surzhyk in previous literature. The purpose of these were to provide a better understanding of contextual language practices among respondents, and to better understand which linguistic aspects respondents might react to in identifying language and evaluating speakers.

ISBN: 9798664755985Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171903
Slavic studies.
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Folk linguistics

The Language of Good People or a Brainless Mixture: Language Attitudes and Perception of Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Speech in Kyiv.
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