ÖZBEK GÖÇMENLERİN DİLSEL UYUM STRATEJİLERİ
LINGUISTIC ACCULTURATION STRATEGIES OF UZBEKS EMIGRANTS

Summary/Abstract: This work aims to study the sociolinguistic behaviours and attitudes of immigrants in order to question the sociolinguistic strategies adopted by immigrants in acculturation situation. It consists of discussing, in the context of Berry's model of acculturation strategies, whether the process of “language shift” is the inevitable strategy. From the assumption that any immigrant community can adopt four different strategies: integration (maintenance of multilingualism), separation (maintenance of the mother tongue), assimilation (language shift) and marginalization (language change), we have chosen Ovakent district (Hatay), where nearly 7,000 Uzbeks have lived since early 1980s. To determine behaviours and attitudes regarding transmission, use and function of languages, the data obtained by the investigation conducted among 210 participants, were analysed with the scale of linguistic adaptation strategies, structured on the Berry’s model of acculturation strategies. The results show that the community has adopted an integration strategy in the sense of "maintaining of multilingualism".

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