Review of the work “Modern Tatar Spoken Language: Identification Signs and Social Differences” by G. Galiullina, E. Kadirova, G. Hadieva, 2020. 222 p.

Abstract

This article reviews the monograph “Modern Tatar Spoken Language: Identification Signs and Social Differences”, written by G. Galiullina, E. Kadirova, G. Khadieva, researchers from the Tatar Linguistics Department of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and published by the Kazan University Publishing House in 2020. The work explores the peculiarities of the modern Tatar spoken language in the fields of lexicon, phonetics, morphology and syntax. The main focus is on the functional capabilities of language units, widespread in spoken language, and the scope of their distribution. The monograph contains about 1,460 audio recordings of unprepared spontaneous speech patterns by the middle and western dialect representatives of different ages and social statuses. The authors of the monograph managed to distinguish the identifying marks of the modern Tatar spoken language and to determine their distribution in public groups, using complex research techniques. The work promotes the development of the theory of the Tatar language, and makes a significant contribution to the fields of dialectology, communicative linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguoculturology