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Демократизация языков: факторы, коллизии и альтернативы
Democratisation of languages: factors, collisions and alternatives

Author(s): Nina Mechkovskaja
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: factors, collisions and alternatives of languages

Summary/Abstract: Democratisation of languages happens commonly and spontaneously. The main process inthe development of language democratisation is the transition from cultural bilinguism, so typicalof the Middle Ages, to national monolinguism. That kind of language conversion was a linguisticcomponent of the powerful historical trend towards the intensification of being social and towardshomogeneousation of human communities. Language policy has trivial results in lexicographicand grammatical codification and a few serious results in the degree of freedom in mass media andpublic communication as also in the linguistic ideology of community (in deontological andaxiological modalities towards language).

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: VIII
  • Page Range: 129-138
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian