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Munira Kairat

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ID4045919
NAMEMunira Kairat
GIVEN NAMESMunira
FAMILY NAMEKairat
SIGNATUREKAIRAT M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0009-0002-6931-3534
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • Articulating Shala Qazaq in America: Chronotopes and Language Ideologies in Central Asian Kazakh Families

    Open Access•Munira Kairat, Amy Kyratzis•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2026•References: 32

    This article examines how Central Asian Kazakh families in California draw on spatial–temporal chronotopes, including Soviet legacies, diasporic minority governance, post‐independence nation‐building, and U.S. migration/assimilation, through the culturally situated label of Shala Qazaq (“incomplete Kazakh”) to discursively construct moralized timelines of their life trajectories and transnational experiences, which in turn shape family language i…

  • Taza Qazaqsha” or Translanguaging? Exploring heritage language maintenance strategies among Central Asian Kazakh immigrant families in California

    Open Access•Munira Kairat, Amy Kyratzis•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    This study applies Conversation Analysis to examine heritage language maintenance among Central Asian Kazakh families in the United States. The study analyzes naturally occurring conversations between a parent and toddler drawn from two Kazakh immigrant families from China and Kazakhstan. While both parents aspire to teach their children Taza Qazaqsha (“pure/clean Kazakh language”), both integrate translanguaging into their daily interactions, de…

  • Taza Qazaqsha” or Translanguaging? Exploring heritage language maintenance strategies among Central Asian Kazakh immigrant families in California

    Open Access•Munira Kairat, Amy Kyratzis•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    This study applies Conversation Analysis to examine heritage language maintenance among Central Asian Kazakh families in the United States. The study analyzes naturally occurring conversations between a parent and toddler drawn from two Kazakh immigrant families from China and Kazakhstan. While both parents aspire to teach their children Taza Qazaqsha (“pure/clean Kazakh language”), both integrate translanguaging into their daily interactions, de…

  • Taza Qazaqsha” or Translanguaging? Exploring heritage language maintenance strategies among Central Asian Kazakh immigrant families in California

    Open Access•Munira Kairat, Amy Kyratzis•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    This study applies Conversation Analysis to examine heritage language maintenance among Central Asian Kazakh families in the United States. The study analyzes naturally occurring conversations between a parent and toddler drawn from two Kazakh immigrant families from China and Kazakhstan. While both parents aspire to teach their children Taza Qazaqsha (“pure/clean Kazakh language”), both integrate translanguaging into their daily interactions, de…

  • Articulating Shala Qazaq in America: Chronotopes and Language Ideologies in Central Asian Kazakh Families

    Open Access•Munira Kairat, Amy Kyratzis•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2026•References: 32

    This article examines how Central Asian Kazakh families in California draw on spatial–temporal chronotopes, including Soviet legacies, diasporic minority governance, post‐independence nation‐building, and U.S. migration/assimilation, through the culturally situated label of Shala Qazaq (“incomplete Kazakh”) to discursively construct moralized timelines of their life trajectories and transnational experiences, which in turn shape family language i…

China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (1 works) · Construct (python library (1 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 works) · Ethnic group (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Ideology (1 works) · Kazakh (1 works) · Language ideology (1 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (1 works) · On Language (1 works)

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