The Language of the Printed Media of Ukraine (in the Context of the Ukrainian/Russian Language of Publication)

Z. Haladzhun

Abstract


The article investigates the language situation in Ukraine over a period of 2009–2019 in terms of the language of periodic and continued printed publications. The article singles out chief problems in the investigation of the language of printed media and traces back the dynamics of the number of publications in the context of the Ukrainian/Russian language.

The difficulty of the research consisted in various methods of calculation used by the relevant government institutions, such as the National Book Chamber of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers, the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee, and, respectively, in the data published by them as well as in the fact that in order to perform a more objective analysis it would be essential to have the data of not such an out-dated (2001) All-Ukrainian population census according to the ethnic background and mother tongue criteria.

Investigating the language situation in the printed media, it can be claimed that, above all, it is closely related to the language situation in the state, that is: predominance of the Ukrainian language in the Western Ukraine, transition to the bilingualism in the Centre and diglossic bilingualism in the East of the state. The majority of publications are published in the Ukrainian (state) language –
42–52,5%. The Russian language takes the second place with 16–21%. The lion’s share of the whole press is issued in the Ukrainian and Russian languages (Ukrainian/Russian/both Ukrainian and Russian) – 70–85%, which shows certain bilingualism of the society but with the predominance of the state language – Ukrainian. This is evidenced by the polling data and may point to the fact that the lingual national identity has already been formed when it comes to the Ukrainian language as the only state language as well as the desire to obtain the better half of the information from the mass media in the Ukrainian language.

Key words: printed media, language of publication, press, language situation, bilingualism, diglossia.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32840/cpu2219-8741/2020.1(41).21

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