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Формиране на азербайджанската нация – културни и езикови политики
The Formation of the Azerbaijan Nation: Cultural and Language Policies

Author(s): Petar Vodenicharov
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Ethnohistory, Political history
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: language policy; Azerbaijan nationalism; European influences; modernization

Summary/Abstract: The author follows the different stages of the formation of the Azerbaijan nation from the second half of the 19th century till the Second world war. From the sociolinguistic point of view the processes of language planning and policy during the different stages – pan-Islamism, pan – Turkism and Azerbaijanism, have been analysed. Special attention has been payed to the European influences on the culture and alphabet choice in Azerbaijan. The processes of cultural and language engineering in USSR during the time of building pseudo –nations defined by Stalin with the ambivalent notion „socialist in content and national in form„ has been analysed with special emphasis on the reasons for changing alphabets – Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, and again Latin.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 118-136
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian