Gendered Identities and Practices in the Jordanian-Turkish Community in Jordan: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

This paper aims to provide a sociolinguistic investigation of gendered identities and practices among some third-generation Jordanian Turks. It researches into language proficiency, use, identity Turks both sexes. A mixed methods approach was chosen, drawing upon combination quantitative qualitative data captured through two methods: questionnaires semi-structured interviews. The analysed in this study evidence that the female members Jordanian-Turkish community, whose linguistic repertoires are comparatively more bilingual than male counterparts, undergoing shift progress, members, on whole, monolingual users have therefore shifted their only sustained ritualised cultural practices.