LINGUISTIC IDENTITY AS AN INTERIORIZABLE PROPERTY

Abstract

In today's globalizing world, problems related to identity are of particular relevance, which are no longer a problem only of the social sciences. It is studied from different positions: philosophical, psychological, political, economic, etc. A special role is given to this problem in linguistic disciplines: sociolinguistics, linguoculturology, linguocognitology, pragmalinguistics, etc., speech and mental features of an identified person with an ethnic group, with a particular social group, etc. The purpose of this article is to highlight one of the aspects of this problem - the internalized property of linguistic identity. As is known, internalization means the impact of a whole complex of external factors on the formation of the inner world of a linguistic personality in the process of its socialization. The scientific significance of this work is to identify the features of the formation of linguistic identity in the multi-ethnic Kazakh society. Since the Kazakh language as the state language and Russian as the second official language are dominant in the communicative space of the Kazakh society, the issue of linguistic identity is relevant. It is obvious that a number of diasporas are mostly partly Russian-speaking (Germans, Koreans, Ukrainians, etc.), partly Kazakh-speaking (Uzbeks, Uighurs, Turks, etc.). And this circumstance confirms the thesis that “... every truly human form of the psyche is primarily is seen as an external, social form of communication between people and only then, as a result of internalization, becomes a mental process of an individual individual” [1, 2]. Of course, we are not talking about their assimilation, since the native languages of these diasporas have become heritage languages. In this regard, it is of interest to study what factors influence the formation of linguistic identity in a Kazakh multilingual society. And its practical significance lies in the possibility of using its materials for further research on linguistic identity, as well as in compiling textbooks on this issue. The source of extracting the factual material is the Kazakh newspaper press, since the mindset of society is most clearly reflected in the language of the mass media. To achieve this goal, such methods as descriptive, interpretive, analysis, synthesis and generalization were used.