Language processes and practices of residents in the Republic of Tatarstan in an intergenerational perspective
https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2023.6.89-97
Abstract
The study is focused on the intergenerational language transmission as a fundamental condition for ensuring the vitality of minority languages. Based on the materials of a mass representative survey in the Republic of Tatarstan with a quota sample of 2,000 respondents, the language attitudes and practices of representatives of youth and the age group over 55 years are revealed in a comparative perspective. The article examines the use of the Russian and Tatar languages, as well as bilingualism in the public sphere (at work, in public places, state institutions, use of the media). In Tatarstan, known for its protectionist policy towards the titular Tatar language, despite the measures taken in the post-Soviet period, the prevailing trend has become to preservation of the linguistic shift in favor of the national Russian language. At the same time, the continuous intergenerational language transmission of the Tatar language as a condition of its viability is complicated.
About the Author
L. R. Nizamova
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nizamova Liliya Raviliyevna, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, Department of General and Ethnic Sociology. Author ID РИНЦ 395332
Kazan, 420008
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Nizamova L.R. Language processes and practices of residents in the Republic of Tatarstan in an intergenerational perspective. The Kazan Socially-Humanitarian Bulletin. 2023;(6 (63)):89-97. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2023.6.89-97
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