Code-Switching Pattern of Turkish- Russian Bilingual Ahıska Turks and Matrix Language Frame Model
Journal: Bilig Journal of Social Sciences in Turkish World
Year: 2022

During the 75 years following Ahıska Turks’ expatriation from their homeland in Soviet Georgia in 1944 to the Central Asian Soviet Republics, they have evolved into a multilingual society. Ahıska Turks use Turkish and Russian language pairs in their daily communication. They adopt code-switching strategies in their daily communication. Turkish-Russian code-switching pattern of Ahıska Turks was not analyzed linguistically in terms of bilingual communication. Therefore, this study aims to investig