Reasons for community language learning in Ukrainian complementary schools in Italy

The increasingly diversity, multi-culturalism and multilingualism of Italian society has not had any real impact on Italian state language policy and planning: community languages, that is the languages of relatively recently arrived migrant communities in Italy, are not taught in Italian state schools, neither to students with a migrant or refugee background, nor to native students. Given this absence of provision in the state system, learning of community languages is primarily achieved through complementary education. Drawing on qualitative data obtained from interviews conducted with school organisers and teachers, this paper presents a discussion of the reasons for Ukrainian language teaching and learning in two Ukrainian complementary schools in Italy. Ukrainian complementary schools provide an appropriate and fruitful terrain of investigation due to the size of the Ukrainian migrant population in Italy, and because complementary education is the only opportunity available for Ukrainian language learning at school level in this country

Chapter Changes and Developments in the Linguistic Landscape of Present-Day Crimea

Following Crimea’s incorporation into Russia in March 2014, the Crimean parliament adopted a new constitution granting official status to Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar. Despite the official multi-ethnicity and multilingualism of Crimea now constitutionally acknowledged, however, there is reason to believe that the formally proclaimed equality of the three languages has not translated into equality in practice. Among the areas where the inequality in language promotion and support is most noticeable, language education policy and language use in public place play a special role

Restorative Justice Principles and Practices and the Discourse of Respect: A Case Study of a Teacher in a Custodial Establishment for Young Offenders

This study aims to explore discourses of respect in the Education Department of a Young Offenders Institution (HMYOI X). The research builds upon the existing literature on the concept of respect both in restorative justice and in prisons to develop a deeper understanding of perspectives on respect in custodial education. More specifically, the study examines a self-narrative elicited from a teacher working in a YOI in England to investigate the discourses of respect which prevail in a custodial institution. The research findings provide a better understanding of the discourses and dynamics of respect within an educational custodial setting and of some of the problems and challenges that need to be addressed in enhancing and assessing the use of restorative justice in prisons

Preface

When the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, the Russian Federation and the newly independent republics of the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia engaged in redefining their national identity in a challenging regional and global context. The stances and policies towards the minorities living in these countries became part of the striving towards national independence and identity formation. Despite vastly different post-Soviet nation-building trajectories, the development and implementation of state policies towards minorities had similar relevance and importance across the region. Thirty years after the end of the USSR what is the situation of minorities and minority issues in the countries that emerged from that multi-ethnic state? How have the former republics – including Russia dealt with their minorities and minority affairs? To what protection and rights are minority communities entitled to? Studies of the dissolution of the USSR and of nation-building in the independent post-Soviet states have flourished over the past decades. However, despite the relevance of the theme, there is a dearth of specialist publications which address the many issues related to minority communities in the post-Soviet space. This volume attempts to fill this gap by providing a collection of essays covering some of the most relevant aspects of the contemporary status and situation of minorities in the area

Minorities in the Post-Soviet Space Thirty Years After the Dissolution of the USSR

When the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, the Russian Federation and the newly independent republics of the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia engaged in redefining their national identity in a challenging regional and global context. The stances and policies towards the minorities living in these countries became part of the striving towards national independence and identity formation. Despite vastly different post-Soviet nation-building trajectories, the development and implementation of state policies towards minorities had similar relevance and importance across the region. Thirty years after the end of the USSR what is the situation of minorities and minority issues in the countries that emerged from that multi-ethnic state? How have the former republics – including Russia dealt with their minorities and minority affairs? To what protection and rights are minority communities entitled to? Studies of the dissolution of the USSR and of nation-building in the independent post-Soviet states have flourished over the past decades. However, despite the relevance of the theme, there is a dearth of specialist publications which address the many issues related to minority communities in the post-Soviet space. This volume attempts to fill this gap by providing a collection of essays covering some of the most relevant aspects of the contemporary status and situation of minorities in the area

Il panorama linguistico di Rijeka (Fiume) e di Pula / Pola

Questo contributo vuole esaminare il panorama linguistico di due citt\ue0 croate: Rijeka (Fiume) e Pula/Pola. Tutti i segni fotografati in due strade con caratteristiche simili sono stati classificati in base alla lingua in cui sono scritti con l\u2019obiettivo di indagare la vitalit\ue0 d\u2019uso delle diverse lingue che compongono il repertorio delle due citt\ue0 e di valutare se nel territorio bilingue della regione istro-quarnerina ci sia un\u2019effettiva maggiore visibilit\ue0 delle lingue minoritarie. Dopo una presentazione del quadro di riferimento teorico e dell\u2019approccio metodologico della ricerca, si danno alcune informazioni sulle citt\ue0 oggetto dell\u2019analisi e sul loro repertorio linguistico. Vengono poi presentati e discussi i risultati dell\u2019indagine in relazione alla letteratura esplorata

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Deictic and epistemic distance in Polish

This work investigates the range of pragmatic contexts in which the Polish distal deictic TAM \u2018there\u2019 appears and argues that these environments share the feature of epistemic uncertainty, which is the semantic common denominator to all sub-modes of irrealis. The use of TAM in contexts of epistemic uncertainty is motivated by its central meaning. TAM can not only convey semantic distance (spatial) with respect to a proposition, but also epistemic distance, i.e. it can release the speakers from the responsibility for the truth of the utterance. Epistemic distance is the feature triggering the expansion of uses from one conceptual domain to another

Who is for, who is against? A sentiment analysis of the new Russian constitution

In this paper attitudes and sentiment towards the new Russian constitution are analysed on the basis of 4,143 tweets, collected between March and May, 2020. In applying text mining techniques to the collected corpus, the focus is on factors explaining positive and negative attitudes toward the imminent constitutional reform, and detecting mixing factors like political similarities between Russia and some of the Western countries, and the relations between Russians and some Western governments. The evolution of attitudes in space and time is also investigated. The analysis shows that factors like (1) political orientation, (2) geography, (3) media type, (4) social network user type, and (5) political similarities between Russia and some Western countries were important to explain positive attitudes. Overall, the study suggests that tweeters supporting the reform are more likely to belong to one of the following categories: sympathizers or adherents of right-wing parties; Russian and former USSR nationals, and TV channels and social network addicted users, particularly those belonging to the \u201chaters\u201d category