Affiliation:
1. Kazan Federal University
Abstract
The study is focused on the intergenerational language transmission as a fundamental condition for ensuring the vitality of minority languages. Based on the materials of a mass representative survey in the Republic of Tatarstan with a quota sample of 2,000 respondents, the language attitudes and practices of representatives of youth and the age group over 55 years are revealed in a comparative perspective. The article examines the use of the Russian and Tatar languages, as well as bilingualism in the public sphere (at work, in public places, state institutions, use of the media). In Tatarstan, known for its protectionist policy towards the titular Tatar language, despite the measures taken in the post-Soviet period, the prevailing trend has become to preservation of the linguistic shift in favor of the national Russian language. At the same time, the continuous intergenerational language transmission of the Tatar language as a condition of its viability is complicated.
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