Language policy: struggle for power (through the prism of the Ukrainian state language law)
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2020.3.257Keywords:
language policy, state language, language law, minority rights, language and power, inequality, UkraineAbstract
One of the main goals of language policy is considered to be the avoidance or management of language conflicts. In reality, however, language policy is an effective tool for achieving the unequal distribution of social goods and political capital. The Law of Ukraine “On Supporting the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language” was adopted on April 25, 2019. In this article we show how language policy can serve as a tool in the struggle for power and in the formation and reproduction of social inequalities through the law seemingly born to protect the Ukrainian language. In the article, we also show that in power struggles, language policy often does not serve to avoid conflicts over language, but on the contrary: it causes internal and external conflicts.
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