От языка нации к языку цивилизации: Формирование государственной языковой политики России

Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология. 2025. Т. 19. № 3. С. 122–132.

Zamyatin K.

Recently, it has become possible to observe the development of new official documents not only on national-ities policy, but also on language policy. This process witnesses that language policy is being formed as an independent direction of state policy. What are the reasons and possible consequences of this process? This article analyzes the official discourse on language policy issues presented in strategic documents and legisla-tive acts adopted and developed in recent years, as well as the institutional context. The aim is to understand the role of ideas and the limitations imposed by structural factors on the formation of language policy within the neoinstitutionalist approach. The results of the study show that the ideological desire to change the con-tent of language policy is associated with the processes of nation-building and a broader search for civiliza-tional identity, in which, primarily due to the foreign policy agenda, language has acquired the role of a key marker. However, an attempt to change the form of language policy encounters significant structural limita-tions and may lead to unexpected outcomes for domestic policy. In particular, as a result of replacing

Keywords: культурная политика, cultural policy, национальная политика, языковая политика, language policy, государство-нация, nationalities policy, nation-state, Russian civilizational project, государство-цивилизация, policy formation, формирование политики

Publication based on the results of: Language, literature and culture in historical and social perspective (2025)