Abstract:

After gaining its independence, Kazakhstan, like any other post-Soviet republics, faced a number of problems of a different character. There was an urgent need to solve the problem of legislative and sociolinguistic aspects of languages: Kazakh – an autochthon language, Russian – a language of international communication, and languages of minorities. During the last twenty years much work has been done on status planning of languages present in Kazakhstani society. The given research paper will try to shed a light on determinants of language choice of students in surfing university website (Intranet), which, in its own turn, will help to compose the sociolinguistic picture of modern Kazakhstan.

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