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Volodymyr Kulyk, Laada Bilaniuk
This article introduces the special issue on the impact of war on the language use and language ideologies of Ukrainians. It begins with an overview of the critical junctures that have recently shaped the sociolinguistic context in Ukraine, namely Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and instigation of a separatist war in the Donbas, and the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war beginning in 2022. This introduction presents key trends and shifts in the dynamics of language use, language politics, and language attitudes, both in Ukraine and abroad. It then provides brief summaries of the various articles in the present special issue. These address the language behavior of youth; language ideologies in language pedagogy; language transitioning of popular vloggers; language politics in internet posts and memes; the role of language in refugee families, including Jewish Ukrainians, in Germany; and the linguistic landscape of German cities hosting sizable groups of Ukrainian refugees
