3. Being Specific About Generalization: Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives in Ethnographic Interviews

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. List of illustrations xi
5. List of tables xii
6. List of abbreviations xiv
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. 2. Language Ecology: Understanding Central Asian Multilingualism 11
9. 3. Being Specific About Generalization: Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives in Ethnographic Interviews 33
10. 4. Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey 59
11. I. Language and Nation-State Building
12. 5. The Re-Acquisition of Kazakh in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges 89
13. 6. Corpus Building in Kazakhstan: An Examination of the Terminology Development in the Oil and Gas Sector 109
14. 7. Societal Multilingualism and Personal Plurilingualism in Pamir Tajikistan’s Complex Language Ecology 125
15. 8. Language-in-Education: A Look at Kyrgyz Language Schools in the Badakhstan Province of Tajikistan 149
16. 9. The Construction of the Tatar Nation in the Debate About the Introduction of Latin Script in the Republic of Tatarstan 169
17. 10. Language Use Among Uyghur Students in Xinjiang, PR China 197
18. II. Globalization and Language Change in Central Asia
19. 11. Language Policies and Labor Migration: The Case of Tajikistan 223
20. 12. English Education in Uzbekistan 245
21. 13. Afterword 267
22. Appendix 269
23. Index 273