Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Ecology: Understanding Central Asian Multilingualism -- 3. Being Specific About Generalization: Kyrgyz Habitual Narratives in Ethnographic Interviews -- 4. Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey -- I. Language and Nation-State Building -- 5. The Re-Acquisition of Kazakh in Kazakhstan: Achievements and Challenges -- 6. Corpus Building in Kazakhstan: An Examination of the Terminology Development in the Oil and Gas Sector -- 7. Societal Multilingualism and Personal Plurilingualism in Pamir Tajikistan's Complex Language Ecology -- 8. Language-in-Education: A Look at Kyrgyz Language Schools in the Badakhstan Province of Tajikistan -- 9. The Construction of the Tatar Nation in the Debate About the Introduction of Latin Script in the Republic of Tatarstan -- 10. Language Use Among Uyghur Students in Xinjiang, PR China -- II. Globalization and Language Change in Central Asia -- 11. Language Policies and Labor Migration: The Case of Tajikistan -- 12. English Education in Uzbekistan -- 13. Afterword -- Appendix -- Index