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Laada Bilaniuk (PhD 1998, Michigan)

Research Interests:
Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language politics, nationalism, popular culture, gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states

Selected Publications:

in press

Language in the balance: The politics of non-accommodation in bilingual Ukrainian-Russian television shows. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

in press

Cultural politics on Ukrainian television: language choice and code switching on “Khoroshou.” Canadian American Slavic Studies 44(2010).

2009

Criticism, confidence, and the reshaping of the linguistic marketplace in Ukraine.  In Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, edited by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz. M.E. Sharpe.

2008

A tense and shifting balance: bilingualism and education in Ukraine. Coauthored with Svitlana Melnyk.  International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11(3/4):340-372.  Also published in Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries, Aneta Pavlenko, edPp.66-98. Toronto: Multilingual Matters.

2008

Linguistic Anthropology. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William A. Darity, Jr., ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

2005

Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Cornell University Press. (Click here to see a summary and reviews of the book)

2004

A typology of surzhyk: mixed Ukrainian-Russian language. International Journal of Bilingualism 8(4).

2003

Gender, language attitudes, and language status in Ukraine. Language in Society 32:47-78.

1999

Speaking of surzhyk: ideologies and mixed languages. Harvard Ukrainian Studies 21(1/2):93-117.

1998

Purity and power: the geography of language ideology in Ukraine. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 13:165-189.


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