Language use in Moscow schools with an ethno-cultural component (based on schools with the Armenian and the Azeri ethno-cultural component)

P. 258–271.

Nikishina E.

This paper investigates the language situation in Moscow schools with an ethnocultural component – a new form of national schools. The analysis is based on interviews which were recorded in 2007, in two Moscow schools, one of them with Armenian ethno-cultural component, and the other, with Azeri. The sample included ten students from each school (five boys and five girls).

In the paper the process of linguistic integration of Azeri and Armenian children into modern Russian society is analyzed. The comparison between these two groups is particularly appealing, because the effects of Soviet Russification, and the language situations in general, were different in Armenia and in Azerbaijan. I show that this difference influences the use of language by Azeri and Armenian children.

Keywords: идентичность, эмиграция, интеграция, коммуникация, communication, integration, identity, emigration, bilingualism, двуязычие, diglossia (functionaldistribution of languages), national language, school with an ethnocultural (national) component, диглоссия, национальный язык, школа с этнокультурным (национальным) компонентом

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Multilingualism. Proceedings of the 23th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics

Saxena A., Viberg Ǻ. Issue 8. , Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009.