Much has been written and said about the roles, functions, and status of English and its diverse implications in local contexts and for people therein. However, Northern Cyprus stands out as a ‘blind spot’ as it is often annexed in studies related to Turkey or diluted within discussions focusing on Cyprus – which collectively leads to limited, partial, and tangential accounts of the complexities embedded in the local context. Departing from this premise, the current paper offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic profile of English in Northern Cyprus. More specifically, it portrays a historical account of the sociolinguistic situation with present-day connections to statuses, roles, attitudes, functions, domains, policies, and practices in the local context. It is concluded that as the island morphed first into a postcolonial context and later into a partitioned sociopolitical entity, the linguacultural hegemony of English remained in Turkish Cypriots’ linguistic repertoires, collective psyche, and educational curricula.

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北塞浦路斯的英语：社会语言学概况

关于英语的角色、功能和地位及其对当地环境和人们的不同影响，已经有很多文章和论述。然而，北塞浦路斯作为一个“盲点”脱颖而出，因为它经常被纳入与土耳其相关的研究中，或者在针对塞浦路斯的讨论中被淡化——这共同导致对当地背景中嵌入的复杂性的有限、片面和离题的描述。与这个前提不同，本文提供了北塞浦路斯英语的全面社会语言学概况。更具体地说，它描绘了社会语言学状况的历史记录，以及与当地背景下的地位、角色、态度、职能、领域、政策和实践的当今联系。结论是，随着该岛首先转变为后殖民背景，后来转变为一个分裂的社会政治实体，英语的语言文化霸权仍然存在于土族塞人的语言库、集体心理和教育课程中。