LANGUAGE USE IN INTER-ETHNIC MARRIAGES IN TURKESTAN

Abstract

The current paper intends to answer the following questions: What is the rule of the language use in the case of an interethnic marriage in Turkestan? What the features of sociocultural environment like and how these specificities make impact on the language use in interethnic marriages? Furthermore, what are the sociolinguistic aspect of the study concerning the interpretation if interethnic language use in mixed marriages? The whole research is based on a database which consists of 40 interviews.

Keywords

• inter-ethnic marriage
• language use
• communication