Economic Terminology in Contemporary Kazakh: Language Phenomena of Post-Soviet Space Cover Image

Экономическая терминология в совре- менном казахском языке: феномены постсоветского языкового пространства
Economic Terminology in Contemporary Kazakh: Language Phenomena of Post-Soviet Space

Author(s): Helena Pociechina, Аida Musagułowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: language reforms in the post-Soviet states; language policy; economic terminology; borrowings; Russian-Kazakh bilingualism

Summary/Abstract: Set against the background of all the economic changes in the countries of the formerSoviet Union, linguistic reforms play an important role. For over a hundred years the literarylanguage of the Kazakhs has been shaped by the influences of Russian. Nowadays, when theindependent Kazakhstan is developing its economy, sciences and technologies as well asinternational cooperation, it is the main task of linguists to create appropriate terminology.It is to be based on three sources: the present vocabulary, historical resources of the Kazakhlanguage, and English loanwords. Such an approach is founded on the linguistic policy ofPresident Nursultan Nazarbajev, which is aimed at introducing a three-language model ofsociety development.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 89-99
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian