SOME REMARKS ON THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN TAJIK PUBLIC INSCRIPTIONS (PART I)

Tomasz Gacek

SOME REMARKS ON THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN TAJIK PUBLIC INSCRIPTIONS (PART I)

Publication date: 19.10.2018

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 219-226

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.18.020.8856

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SOME REMARKS ON THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN TAJIK PUBLIC INSCRIPTIONS (PART I)

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The present article deals with the Tajik language used in modern public inscriptions (sign-boards, sign-posts, billboard advertisements, political banners, etc.) documented in about 400 photographs taken in Tajikistan by various individuals in recent years. Some sociolinguistic problems are discussed (especially in the case of multilingual inscriptions) as well as morphology, vocabulary, word-formation and syntax of the texts in question.

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Tajik language, public inscriptions, multilingual texts

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 219-226

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.18.020.8856

Article type: Original article

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Tomasz Gacek

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 19.10.2018

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