Випуск 11 (Спеціальний випуск)

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    Introduction
    (2025) Kobchenko, Natalia
    Postcolonial linguistics focuses on researching the language experience and language situations of countries of the Global South that gained independence from colonial rule in the 20th century. In particular, numerous studies address the language policy and language planning, language ideologies, creolizing of indigenous languages, multilingualism, language resilience and resistance, language victimization and language opportunism, the formation of linguistic theories, and standardization of native languages in former colonies. However, a large number of these processes can be observed on the European continent as well, although they have certain peculiarities. Viewing these phenomena through the lens of ‘subordinated–dominator,’ or in other words ‘colonized–colonizer’, will give us a chance to comprehend a deeper social interaction and language processes in some Eastern European countries, and in Ukraine, in particular, and to reveal the origins of current language issues. In the case of Ukraine, it has greater importance due to Russia’s full-scale invasion, as it facilitates the understanding of the anticolonial nature of this war and decolonial processes of wartime. Thus, on the one hand, postcolonial linguistics could be a useful basis to analyze languages, language practices, and language policy in countries that were not colonies in a traditional sense. On the other hand, postcolonial approaches need to enhance their methodological basis, collect and carefully consider empirical data that were not part of linguists’ focus before. This special issue aims to make a partial contribution toward filling these gaps.
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    Reflections on Postcolonial Linguistics and Рerspectives for the Language Situation in Ukraine
    (2025) Wingender, Monika
    Background. Debates about postcolonialism and related terms, concepts and ideologies such as decommunization and de-Russification shape current societal, political and academic discourses in Ukraine. Contribution to the research field. With a focus on academic discourses, this article deals with postcolonial linguistics with regard to the language situation in Ukraine. Postcolonial linguistics is understood as an umbrella term for "language in postcolonial contexts" and "postcolonial approaches to the study of language" (Levisen & Sippola, 2019, p. 1) as well as (post)colonialistic practices in multilingual language situations. Against the background of this broad understanding of postcolonial linguistics, this paper focuses on language situation and language policy in connection with language ideologies. Purpose. The aim of this article is first to reflect on concepts of postcolonial linguistics and then to discuss the extent to which the language situation in Ukraine can be analyzed as a postcolonial language situation. The article also aims to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the postcolonial lens for analyzing the language situation in Ukraine and what the case of Ukraine contributes to postcolonial linguistics. To this end, Ukraine’s language situation is analyzed in more detail on the basis of two case studies. Herein the article deals with the Soviet language policy and with decommunization as well as de-Russification in Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Methods. The methodical approach and the material basis are literaturebased. Results. The article reveals numerous aspects of the language situation from a postcolonialistic perspective and also demonstrates that the postcolonial lens should only be one approach to analysis among others, as developments in language policy and language ideology are multifaceted.