Advanced Linguistics, № 8

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    Gender difference in language use and language attitudes in online Facebook posts of Ukrainian migrants in Germany
    (КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського, 2021) Kuznietsova, Anastasiia
    This article studies the gender difference of language use and language attitudes of Ukrainian communities in Germany in online social media. Since 2014, the conflict in the East of Ukraine has led to a remarkably intense flow of Ukrainian migrants to Western Europe giving rise to longstanding issues of identity formation, language use and attitudes both within Ukraine and inside Ukrainian diaspora communities. This article will examine Ukrainian diaspora in Germany on the subject of language ideologies, language use and attitudes by analyzing its linguistic online activity. To do so, our analysis will draw on a range of interdisciplinary methodologies, including studies of linguistic identity positioning, gender in migration, imagined migrant communities, and studies of discursive constructions of nationhood, which explore language indexing in relation to national identity. Social media data were collected from Facebook groups in Germany basing on follower numbers, the variety of language use, frequency of posts, and the variety of their social, cultural or political focusIt is noted that language use by members of the three studied Facebook groups in no way represents the positioning of all Ukrainian immigrants in that country. In addition, the lack of access to the migrants’ offline multimodal and dialogic language interactions posed limitations on this study. It was concluded that as opposed to men, Ukrainian migrant women may likely to develop less-Ukrainian oriented identities with less attention paid to the Ukrainian language. Therefore, while national mythologies view women as responsible for upholding Ukrainian language and traditions, women themselves, as opposed to Ukrainian men, tend to use internationally established languages as a marker for their social advancement. Thus, in the future perspective, language use and attitudes, as well as immigrants’ identity research would benefit from additional studies that examine more diverse groups of immigrants and by adding additional methods.