Transgression as the Norm: Russian in Linguistic Landscape of Kyiv, Ukraine

摘要: Some minority languages behave like good children, seen but not heard. Others normal both heard and seen. And yet others may unruly children be or even when banished away from the public eye. The latter is case of Russian in Ukraine. an unusual language. It spoken by majority population Ukraine understood rest. study offers language scholars opportunity to examine process creation a language, through downgrading former lingua franca. This particularly visible area linguistic landscape, uses written also excellent transgressive semiotics. Scollon (2003, p. 146) define signs as unauthorized terms placement, for example, graffiti. In present chapter, this definition extended choice, that is, whose are sanctioned laws.