The categories "trasianka" and "Czechoslovak" as discursive categories : their origin and use in contemporary Belarusian-Russian and Slovak-Czech discourses

Abstract

This paper deals with the mixing of Czech and Slovak and the mixing of Belarusian in Russian from a comparative perspective. More specifically, it describes what Internet users categorize as "trasianka" and what the categorize as "Czechoslovak", which social categories, evaluations, activities and discourses they connect with these categories of language mixing.

Keywords

• trasianka
• Czechoslovak
• language mixing
• Internet
• discourse
• categorization
• Czech
• Slovak
• Russian
• Belarusian