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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2 Language Ecology: Understanding Central Asian Multilingualism |
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3 Being Specific About Generalization: Using Ethnographic Interviews to Examine Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives |
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4 Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey |
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I Language and Nation-State Building |
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5 The Re-Acquisition of Kazakh in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges |
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6 Corpus Building in Kazakhstan: An Examination of Terminology Development in the Oil and Gas Sector |
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7 Societal Multilingualism and Personal Plurilingualism in Pamir Tajikistan's Complex Language Ecology |
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8 Language-in-Education: A Look at Kyrgyz Language Schools in the Badakhshan Province of Tajikistan |
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9 The Construction of the Tatar Nation in the Debate About the Introduction of a Latin Script in the Republic of Tatarstan |
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10 Language Use Among Uyghur Students in Xinjiang, PR of China |
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II Globalization and Language Change in Central Asia |
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11 Language Policies and Labor Migration: The Case of Tajikistan |
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Dilbarhon (Dilia) Hasanova |
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12 English Education in Uzbekistan |
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Elise S. Ahn, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan; Juldyz Smagulova, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan.
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