TY - JFULL AU - Soon-ok Myong and Byong-soon Chun PY - 2013/4/ TI - Kazakhstani Koreans- Conflict of Linguistic Identity: In鈥揵etween the Sovietized and Kazakhstani Citizens T2 - International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences SP - 768 EP - 777 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7982 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 75, 2013 N2 - This paper intends to identify the ethnic Kazakhstani Koreans- political process of identity formation by exploring their narrative and practice about the state language represented in the course of their becoming the new citizens of a new independent state. The Russophone Kazakhstani Koreans- inability to speak the official language of their affiliated state is considered there as dissatisfying the basic requirement of citizens of the independent state, so that they are becoming marginalized from the public sphere. Their contradictory attitude that at once demonstrates nominal reception and practical rejection of the obligatory state language unveils a high barrier inside between their self-language and other-language. In this paper, the ethnic Korean group-s conflicting linguistic identity is not seen as a free and simple choice, but as a dynamic struggle and political process in which the subject-s past experiences and memories intersect with the external elements of pressure. ER -