Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova
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Research interests
My primary research interest lies in the field of sociolinguistics, with a focus on the contemporary Ukrainian linguistic landscape. I aim to explore how individuals in a multilingual society – where Ukrainian, Russian, Surzhyk (a mixed language), and other languages are spoken – choose which language(s) to use and how these choices shape their identities, especially in the context of the ongoing war and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I seek to investigate what linguistic identity means for Ukrainians today, both for those who remain in Ukraine and for refugees navigating new societal languages while integrating into new cultural environments.
Additionally, I am interested in psycholinguistics, particularly in the area of multilingual language acquisition and attrition among Ukrainian refugee children. The focus is on how these children acquire new languages, whether structurally similar to their first language(s) or significantly different, and how their linguistic abilities evolve over time in their new environments.
