Assel Akzhigitova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Assel Akzhigitova is involved.
Articles
2014 Language planning in Kazakhstan: The case of ergonyms as another scene of linguistic landscape of Astana Language Problems and Language Planning 38:1, pp. 42–57 | Article
The political, economic and sociocultural changes that took place after the break-up of the USSR continue to impact the linguistic landscape of Kazakhstan. The historical linkages to the Russian Empire and then the USSR, both of which were characterized by policies of Russification, have resulted… read more
Toponymic landscape change in Kazakhstan: Respondents’ attitudes to renaming, language choice, and the Latin script Linguistic Landscape: Online-First Articles | Article
Kazakhstan’s urban landscape functions as a sociolinguistic palimpsest in which pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-independence layers of naming remain simultaneously legible and to which the ongoing transition to a Latin-based script adds a further layer. Combining field observation of the Linguistic… read more