Description:
During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual...
Brief description: Laada Bilaniuk is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Review Quotes:
"Here in all its immediacy is the changing texture of life in post-Soviet Ukraine, portrayed with the nuance and synthetic breadth that marks the best language-centered accounts of social change. Whether readers come to it with an interest in the shifting grounds of identity and political practice or the social shaping of language ideology and practice, they will be sure to gain much from this rigorous but accessible treatment."
--Joseph Errington, Yale University