When language policy is not enough


Smagulova J.
1 March 2021De Gruyter Mouton

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
2021#2021Issue 267-268265 - 269 pp.

By focusing predominantly on discourse production and language management, language policy research de-emphasizes the material sources of inequality. The paper argues that language management, often restricted by ritualistic and symbolic gestures, cannot rectify historically formed relations of power and calls for critical examination of both sociolinguistic and socio-economic consequences of language reforms.

Kazakhstan , language policy , language revitalization , social inequality

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KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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