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This research study examines the sociolinguistic attitudes of Kazakhs towards the Latin alphabet ... more This research study examines the sociolinguistic attitudes of Kazakhs towards the Latin alphabet and orthography reform by means of the sociolinguistic attitude survey. The recent announcement of Nursultan Nazarbaev, the Kazakh president of the Republic of Kazakhstan, about an intention of the Kazakh government to have shifted the current Cyrillic-based Kazakh alphabet to the Latin seemed to lead to the division of the Kazakh society into two opposite groups. The president announced a full support of the Latin alphabet adoption by various sections of the population of Kazakhstan, although there is not or no publicly available a research study or official consensus regarding the reform in Kazakh. Therefore, this research study is directly motivated by this linguistic situation in Kazakhstan. To find out whether such an alphabet and orthography reform is triggered by a linguistic need of Kazakh, an interview with some Kazakh language experts was also conducted in addition to the sociolinguistic survey. As a result, both the Kazakh language users and experts unanimously support the current reform and associate it with a language need and globalization. 'Sociolinguistics' class taught by him when I was actively exploring the topic. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee, Paul Roberge and Mike J. Terry, for their insightful comments and suggestions, and encouragements on pursuing this topic further. I would like to thank Teresa Edwards at the Odum Institute for her statistical analysis and advise. Also, I would like to thank my friend and colleague, Haley Boone, for correcting grammatical errors and helping with the IRB application. To my own family and family in law. Particularly, my husband and a little daughter for their patience and support: I am just as certain that without their helps, this thesis would not be completed. Although I am clearly indebted to several people for the completion of this project, any oversights or errors in fact or judgment contained herewithin are my responsibility alone. v TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES .
This research study examines the sociolinguistic attitudes of Kazakhs towards the Latin alphabet ... more This research study examines the sociolinguistic attitudes of Kazakhs towards the Latin alphabet and orthography reform by means of the sociolinguistic attitude survey. The recent announcement of Nursultan Nazarbaev, the Kazakh president of the Republic of Kazakhstan, about an intention of the Kazakh government to have shifted the current Cyrillic-based Kazakh alphabet to the Latin seemed to lead to the division of the Kazakh society into two opposite groups. The president announced a full support of the Latin alphabet adoption by various sections of the population of Kazakhstan, although there is not or no publicly available a research study or official consensus regarding the reform in Kazakh. Therefore, this research study is directly motivated by this linguistic situation in Kazakhstan. To find out whether such an alphabet and orthography reform is triggered by a linguistic need of Kazakh, an interview with some Kazakh language experts was also conducted in addition to the sociolinguistic survey. As a result, both the Kazakh language users and experts unanimously support the current reform and associate it with a language need and globalization. 'Sociolinguistics' class taught by him when I was actively exploring the topic. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee, Paul Roberge and Mike J. Terry, for their insightful comments and suggestions, and encouragements on pursuing this topic further. I would like to thank Teresa Edwards at the Odum Institute for her statistical analysis and advise. Also, I would like to thank my friend and colleague, Haley Boone, for correcting grammatical errors and helping with the IRB application. To my own family and family in law. Particularly, my husband and a little daughter for their patience and support: I am just as certain that without their helps, this thesis would not be completed. Although I am clearly indebted to several people for the completion of this project, any oversights or errors in fact or judgment contained herewithin are my responsibility alone. v TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES .