New Release: Boundaries and Belonging: Language, Diaspora and Motherland

A new issue of the international Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity (J-BILD) is available!

This Special Issue of J- BILD “Boundaries and Belonging: Language, Diaspora and Motherland” is one of the outcomes of a long-term collaboration between the guest editors, Alla Nedashkivska from the University of Alberta, Canada, and Holger Kusse from TU Dresden, Germany.

From our Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies are also envolved: Marianna Novosolova, Maria Lieber, Christoph Oliver Mayer and Gal Kirn.

Contents:

• Introduction to Special Issue. Language Boundaries in Different Multicultural Spaces, by Holger Kusse. 
• Diaspora
  Constructing the Motherland: German-Canadian Positioning and the Tensions between Place and Space, by Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain and Grit Liebscher
• Italianità as Transcultural Identity in Quebec, by Maria Lieber and Christoph Oliver Mayer
• Writing, Memory, and Place in Shumona Sinha’s French Language Novel, Calcutta, by Srilata Ravi
• What is Arabic Good For? : Future Directions and Current Challenges of Arabic Language Educational Reform in France, by Chantal Tetreault
• New Yugoslavia as a Diasporic State?, by Gal Kirn

• Motherland

  Native Language Activism: Exploring Language Ideologies in Ukraine, by Alla Nedashkivska

• The Instrumentalization of the Language Issue in Ukraine, by Marianna Novosolova

• Bloggers as Social Actors in Language Policy Debates in Ukraine, by Nadiya Kiss

• Language Tenacity of Ukrainians in the 20th Century as a Means of National Self-Assertion, by Liudmyla Pidkuimukha

All articles are available via open access on the journal page of J-BILD:

http://bild-lida.ca/journal/current-issue/