SOCIO-LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE STATE LANGUAGE IN THE DIGITIZATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

The article is intended to determine the features of the state language during the process of digitization in the public social life of the citizens of Kazakhstan. Digitization of Kazakhstan is going on intensively. The rapid development of IT technology has made changes to the structure of the language. In this regard, the article considers the social, political, and economic reasons for determining the peculiarities of the Kazakh language in the field of digital technology. Language units collected from texts on social networks, state portals, media channels, business platforms were taken as materials of the article. Socio-linguistic methods were used in the article: the method of external observation on field research, the method of synchronous analysis in modeling the features of language in society, general linguistic methods (description, analysis, systematization). The current state of the Kazakh language was described using the method of external observation, the sociolinguistic phenomena that occurred in the linguistic situation of the Kazakh language in a heterogeneous linguistic environment (linguistic situation, language conflict, mixing of languages, bilingualism, multilingualism, language choice, recognition of language status, etc. ) was determined. It has been proven that the use of IT technology and digital system products contributes to the expansion of the functional scope of the Kazakh language. Although the "Digital Kazakhstan" program is not directly related to the implementation of the language policy of the state, it was determined that it had a positive effect on the development of the state language.