nije evidentirano

Prestyž ukrajins'koji movy ta stavlennja do dvomovnosti za ocinkamy movciv riznyh vikovyh grup / Престиж української мови та ставлення до двомовності за оцінками мовців різних вікових груп

Contemporary language situation in Ukraine is characterized as bilingual. However, regardless the mass character of Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism, the bilingualism in Ukraine is not balanced: less than half of the respondents, who assessed their language competence as fluent ability to use Ukrainian and Russian, possess, during the use of the two languages, the same feeling of easiness, while the other respondents gave advantage of the one over the two languages. The difference between, how much people in Ukraine use language and what they think about their language behaviour and the behaviour of others, is the indicator that points to the distortion of language situation in Ukraine. To define the differences in attitudes of different-age-group speakers towards Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism on the basis of the results of sociolinguistic studies and to examine the changes in speakers' assessment of language prestige. The analysis of the results of sociolinguistic and sociological studies in Ukraine, published since 2000, related to the attitude towards bilingualism and language prestige regarding the age parameter. The comparison of the results of sociolinguistic studies from 2006 and 2017 confirmed the growth of the prestige of the Ukrainian language. With regard to the attitude towards the bilingualism, Ukrainian speakers are not of equal opinion. Regardless the fact that most of the speakers understand the information in Ukrainian and Russian without any problems, not many of them are considered to be bilingual. Also, there is no consensus on the assessment of language environment: 44, 6 % of respondents consider the inhabitants of their city/town to be bilingual (the „no“ response was chosen by 45, 3% of them) ; the inhabitants of their region – 46, 5 % („no“ – 37%) ; according to almost 53 % of respondents, the inhabitants of Ukraine are bilingual (23% of them do not agree with that opinion). There is a tendency according to which the inhabitants speak Ukrainian, as opposed to those who speak Russian, in relation to self-identification, and they strongly define themselves as monolinguals. Such self- identification is different from the conclusions resulted in previous studies, when larger language stability was more visible in speakers who spoke Russian. The more defined position, when it is about the national language self- identification, is more significant for the youth. The basis for a different assessment of language situation in Ukraine regarding the age, can be found in the attitudes towards language and culture, widespread in the society, that is, the attitude towards the language which is seen as the language prestige. The results of the recent studies have shown a constant tendency of the growth of the prestige of the Ukrainian language.

jezična situacija ; bilingvizam ; jezično ponašanje ; prestiž jezika ; jezična stvarnost ; jezična politika

Jezik rada: ukrajinski