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Language Change in Central Asia / ed. by Elise S. Ahn, Juldyz Smagulova.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 106Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614516095
  • 9781501500435
  • 9781614514534
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.440958 23
LOC classification:
  • P40.5.L542 L36 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Ecology: Understanding Central Asian Multilingualism -- 3. Being Specific About Generalization: Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives in Ethnographic Interviews -- 4. Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey -- I. Language and Nation-State Building -- 5. The Re-Acquisition of Kazakh in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges -- 6. Corpus Building in Kazakhstan: An Examination of the Terminology Development in the Oil and Gas Sector -- 7. Societal Multilingualism and Personal Plurilingualism in Pamir Tajikistan’s Complex Language Ecology -- 8. Language-in-Education: A Look at Kyrgyz Language Schools in the Badakhstan Province of Tajikistan -- 9. The Construction of the Tatar Nation in the Debate About the Introduction of Latin Script in the Republic of Tatarstan -- 10. Language Use Among Uyghur Students in Xinjiang, PR China -- II. Globalization and Language Change in Central Asia -- 11. Language Policies and Labor Migration: The Case of Tajikistan -- 12. English Education in Uzbekistan -- 13. Afterword -- Appendix -- Index
Summary: Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions of socio-cultural capital in Central Asia.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Ecology: Understanding Central Asian Multilingualism -- 3. Being Specific About Generalization: Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives in Ethnographic Interviews -- 4. Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey -- I. Language and Nation-State Building -- 5. The Re-Acquisition of Kazakh in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges -- 6. Corpus Building in Kazakhstan: An Examination of the Terminology Development in the Oil and Gas Sector -- 7. Societal Multilingualism and Personal Plurilingualism in Pamir Tajikistan’s Complex Language Ecology -- 8. Language-in-Education: A Look at Kyrgyz Language Schools in the Badakhstan Province of Tajikistan -- 9. The Construction of the Tatar Nation in the Debate About the Introduction of Latin Script in the Republic of Tatarstan -- 10. Language Use Among Uyghur Students in Xinjiang, PR China -- II. Globalization and Language Change in Central Asia -- 11. Language Policies and Labor Migration: The Case of Tajikistan -- 12. English Education in Uzbekistan -- 13. Afterword -- Appendix -- Index

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Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions of socio-cultural capital in Central Asia.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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