Abstract: Azerbaijan’s complex history has weaved a tapestry of linguistic, cultural, and national identities among Azerbaijanis through centuries of political, social and linguistic integration. In the current post-Soviet era, this identity is undergoing another period of change, with influences from intra-state ethnic, religious, and sociopolitical institutions as well as from regional and international powers. This article center on linguistic identity among Azerbaijani youth at three types of schools: Azerbaijani-medium, Russian-medium, and English-medium. The authors seek to discover whether and to what extent the language of instruction in each type of school affects linguistic identity, which in turn has implications for national identity. The article first discusses the existing literature in language and identity in second language acquisition and socio-educational linguistics. It then examines Azerbaijan’s linguistic and political history through the lens of the latter framework, as a context for an analysis of the data from surveys and focus groups. The article analyzes the relationship between medium of instruction in school and students’ perceptions of language and identification with various language groups, and discusses the findings of a significant correlation between language instruction and linguistic identity, with its implications for national identity.
内容摘要：通过几个世纪历史的政治、社会和语言的复杂整合，阿塞拜疆人中形成了语言、文化和民族身份水乳交融的一种身份。在目前的后苏联时代，受到国内民族、宗教、社会政治机构、地区的和国际力量的影响，这个身份正在经历一个变化的时期。本文主要讨论了阿塞拜疆三个不同类型学校的青年人的语言身份：阿塞拜疆语学校、俄语学校、英语学校。作者试图发现每个学校的教学语言是否以及在何种程度上影响语言身份，进而影响到国民身份的认同。本文首先讨论了现有的有关第二语言获取和社会教育语言学中语言和身份文献上的观点，然后通过后面架构的分析，考察了阿塞拜疆的语言和政治历史，作为来源于调查和专题小组数据的分析背景。本文分析了对于不同的语言组，学校里教学语言、学生的语言感知和身份之间的关系，提出了教学语言、语言身份和民族身份具有显著相关的研究成果。
Keywords：Azerbaijan, national identity, linguistic identity, nation building, cultural capital, social capital
关键词：阿塞拜疆，国民身份，语言身份，国家建立，文化资本，社会资本
作者：Lisa Donohoe and Vafa Kazdal
来源：Nationalities Paper.The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity
2014.11 Volume 42 number 6
《民族主义和民族性杂志》2014年11月第42卷第6号
