'A Torba of Cool': Svitlana Pyrkalo on Ukrainian Slang

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Description:	In this podcast, writer, journalist and linguist Svitlana Pyrkalo discusses the evolution and development of Ukrainian slang with Rory Finnin, Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge.


Created:	2010-03-27 21:26
Collection:	Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Podcast
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	R.E. Finnin, Svitlana Pyrkalo
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	Svitlana Pyrkalo; Ukrainian language; culture; young slang; Rory Finnin;


Abstract:	Works referred to in this podcast include: Svitlana Pyrkalo, Kukhnia ehoista / Egoist's Kitchen (Kyiv: Fakt, 2007) Svitlana Pyrkalo, Ne dumai pro chervone / Don't Think about Red (Kyiv: Fakt, 2004) Svitlana Pyrkalo, Pershyi slovnyk ukrains'koho molodizhnoho slenhu / The First Dictionary of Ukrainian Youth Slang (Kyiv: Vipol, 1998) Svitlana Pyrkalo, Zelena Marharita / Green Margarita (Kyiv: Fakt, 2007) Lesia Stavyts'ka, Ukrainska mova bez tabu / The Ukrainian Language without Taboos (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2008) Lesia Stavyts'ka, Ukrains'kyi zhargon / Ukrainian Jargon (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2005) Oksana Tseatsura, Laba: tlumachnyi slovnyk muzychnoho ta mytets'koho slenhu / 'Laba' (Music): An Explanatory Dictionary of Musical and Artistic Slang (Kyiv: Ukrains'kyi renesans, 2009) An online dictionary of Ukrainian jargon can be found here: http://ukr-zhargon.wikidot.com/

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Works referred to in this podcast include:

Svitlana Pyrkalo, Kukhnia ehoista / Egoist's Kitchen (Kyiv: Fakt, 2007)
Svitlana Pyrkalo, Ne dumai pro chervone / Don't Think about Red (Kyiv: Fakt, 2004)
Svitlana Pyrkalo, Pershyi slovnyk ukrains'koho molodizhnoho slenhu / The First Dictionary of Ukrainian Youth Slang (Kyiv: Vipol, 1998)
Svitlana Pyrkalo, Zelena Marharita / Green Margarita (Kyiv: Fakt, 2007)

Lesia Stavyts'ka, Ukrainska mova bez tabu / The Ukrainian Language without Taboos (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2008)
Lesia Stavyts'ka, Ukrains'kyi zhargon / Ukrainian Jargon (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2005)

Oksana Tseatsura, Laba: tlumachnyi slovnyk muzychnoho ta mytets'koho slenhu / 'Laba' (Music): An Explanatory Dictionary of Musical and Artistic Slang (Kyiv: Ukrains'kyi renesans, 2009)

An online dictionary of Ukrainian jargon can be found here: http://ukr-zhargon.wikidot.com/

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