The Language of Wars of Conquest – An Example of a Sociolinguistic Study. Review: Andreĭ Zinkevich, IAzyk i voĭna: Okkupatsionnaia iazykovaia politika v Slavii vo vremia Vtoroĭ mirovoĭ voĭny. Tribun EU, Brno 2021, 599 pp. ISBN: 978-80-263-1637-4 Cover Image

Язык захватнических войн – пример социолингвистического исследования. Рецензия на книгу: Зинкевич Андрей, "Язык и война. Оккупационная языковая политика в Славии во время Второй мировой войны". Brno: Tribun EU, Brno 2021. 599 ss.
The Language of Wars of Conquest – An Example of a Sociolinguistic Study. Review: Andreĭ Zinkevich, IAzyk i voĭna: Okkupatsionnaia iazykovaia politika v Slavii vo vremia Vtoroĭ mirovoĭ voĭny. Tribun EU, Brno 2021, 599 pp. ISBN: 978-80-263-1637-4

Author(s): Alena Rudenka
Subject(s): Language studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: occupation; language policy; metropolitan language; titular nation; national minority; linguistic assimilation; bilingualism

Summary/Abstract: This article is a review of the book IAzyk i voĭna: Okkupatsionnaia iazykovaia politika v Slavii vo vremia Vtoroĭ mirovoĭ voĭny [Language and War: Language Policy in the Occupied Slavic Countries during World War II] (2021) by Andrei Zinkevich. The monograph under review is devoted to the reconstruction of the language policy in the occupied Slavic countries during the Second World War. Zinkevich defines the types of language policy in the countries under consideration and classifies their main features. His book is especially relevant today: since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, it has been read differently.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 1-19
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Russian
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