The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.21.2.06

Lina Bikelienė

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Abstract

Speaker identity is one of the factors that might play a role in the realisation of sounds. Previous studies have observed that phonetic variations, alongside the formation of speaker’s identity, can index political meaning. This article aims at analysing a politically conditioned variation in rendering the name of the capital of Ukraine. Though the change from ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ precedes the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine, the analysis shows 24 February, 2022 has accelerated the process. Contrary to the general tendency for a language change to manifest first in the spoken mode and then proceed to writing, the findings indicate faster shift from ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ in written English.

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英语媒体对乌克兰首都的发音

说话者的身份是可能在声音变现中发挥作用的因素之一。以往的研究发现，语音变化与说话者身份的形成一起，可以反映政治含义。本文旨在分析在表述乌克兰首都名称时受政治条件限制的变化。虽然从 "基辅 "到 "基辅 "的变化发生在俄罗斯在乌克兰的战争开始之前，但分析表明 2022 年 2 月 24 日加快了这一进程。与语言变化首先表现在口语模式中然后再表现在书面模式中的一般趋势相反，研究结果表明，在书面英语中，从 "基辅 "到 "基辅 "的变化速度更快。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.