‘It's a Shame to Speak Russian’:
Language Guilt and Identity Reconstruction in Wartime Ukraine

Olena Tanchyk and Peter Joseph Torres
Arizona State University

2026 American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting

‘It's a Shame to Speak Russian’: Language Guilt and Identity Reconstruction in Wartime Ukraine by Olena Tanchyk and Peter Joseph Torres of Arizona State University for the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference 2026

This page supplements our poster for the 2026 American Association for Applied Linguistics’ Annual Meeting.

Here are the citations used in the poster:

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[2] Institute for the study of war (2026). Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment December 31, 2025. https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-31-2025/

[3] Gee, J. P. (2011). An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method (3rd Ed). Routledge.

[4] Johnstone, B. (2018). Discourse analysis (Vol. 3). John Wiley & Sons.

[5] Culpeper, J., & Haugh, M. (2014). Pragmatics and the English language. Palgrave Macmillan.

[6] Bucholtz, M., & Hall, K. (2005). Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach. Discourse Studies, 7(4–5), 585–614