ABOUT THE FORMS OF THE KAZAKH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES’ EXISTENCE IN THE LINGUISTIC SITUATION OF THE AKTOBE REGION

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the unexplored in the sciolinguistic aspect of the problem of the forms of existence of the Kazakh and Russian languages in the communicative space of the Aktobe region. The idea and objectives of our research are to identify the functioning and use of the literary language, dialect and dialect forms of existence of the dominant languages: Kazakh as the state and autochthonous language and Russian as the language of interethnic communication. In the proposed article we describe the linguistic situation of the region, the forms of existence of the Kazakh and Russian languages and their use in mass media, domestic communication, the definition of the functioning of dialects in the speech of the Russian population, their content is revealed on the basis of theoretical provisions on the form of the existence of languages. The authors are particularly interested in the functioning of the dialect form of the Russian language among the population and their diversity. The object of the study is the literary, dialect, spoken forms of the Kazakh and Russian languages, the subject of the study is the functioning of the listed forms of the existence of languages in various spheres of communication. To achieve this goal, we studied theoretical materials, analyzed the main provisions on the language situation as a central problem of sociolinguistics and the form of the existence of languages as a qualitative feature of the language situation and made theoretical conclusions that formed the basis of the practical part of the article. The theoretical and practical significance of this research is that the results obtained can be used in the preparation of theoretical courses in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, dialectology. Also, this study and its results can be used in regulating the linguistic and ethno-linguistic situations of the regions of the country.