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WP309 Language policy 4.0
Kelly-Holmes
2023
Media in general, and, in particular new media that are the product of digital technology, have not been a key domain of study in language policy and language planning. However, such media have increasingly become central sites of everyday linguistic …
Key words: agency, language policy, technology, Web 4.0
WP91 Enregisterment, agency & language shift: Kazakh as baby talk
Smagulova
2012
The paper examines how babies in urban Kazakh families are socialized into being Russian-speaking through an analysis of code-switching in baby-directed talk. Drawing on work on registers and footing, I show that Kazakh is systematically enregistered …
Key words: agency, baby talk, code-switching, Kazakh, Kazakhstan, language shift, language socialization, register, Russian