ISBN:
1-85065-442-5
,
0-472-11226-0
,
978-0-472-11226-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xiv, 260 Seiten, 6 ungezählte Blätter
,
Illustrationen, Karten, Tabellen
Schlagwort(e):
Zentral-Asien Aserbaidschan
;
Usbekistan
;
Kasachstan
;
Kirgisien
;
Turkmenistan
;
Tadschikistan
;
Sowjet-Union, ehemalige
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Spracherwerb
;
Geschichte
;
Diaspora
;
Multilingualismus
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Islam
;
Identität
Kurzfassung:
This book focuses on language politics in the six predominantly Muslim-populated republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus during the 1990s. Following the dismemberment of the Soviet Union in 1991, the six newly independent states - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Azerbayjan - faced a plethora of political, cultural and economic problems. Their effors at de-russification (part of de-sovietisation) were conditioned by the pressures of nationalistic activists, held in check by government circles well aware of the continuing dependence on the Russian Federation, as well as of the presence of substantial Russian diasporas in each of the six states.Based largely on primary materials in Russian and the national languages as well as on interviews, the book describes and examines the public debates and politically motivated attempts at promoting the respective titular languages as a step for nation-building in a multicultural and multilingual situation
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Transliteration: Note and Tables -- Map of Central Asia and the Caucasus -- 1. Introduction: Language and the Search for Identity -- 2. The Advent of the Independent Muslim States -- 3. Language Issues: the Russian Diaspora -- 4. Language Politics: the Soviet Era -- 5. Language Politics: the Independent Republics -- 6. Language Laws and Decrees -- 7. Alphabet Change and its Implementation -- 8. Lexical and Orthographic Intervention -- 9. Language of Instruction and Language Instruction -- 10. Conclusion: New Solutions, Old Problems -- References -- Index
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-244; Erschien auch in Ann Arbor bei University of Michigan Press
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