Теоретические подходы к изучению языковых режимов

Общественные науки и современность. 2024. № 4. С. 128–136.

Tulum A.

The concept of language regime emerged in political science in the late 1980s. The time of great changes and transformation saw the rise of ethnic conflicts, new challenges to language diversity management in many European states due to migration, a discussion of linguistic rights and developments in international law. As a result, all these trends highlighted once again the political importance of language issues and an urgent need to investigate them by bringing together the approaches from both political science and sociolinguistics. Inspired by this idea, many researchers have made a significant contribution to interdisciplinary language policy studies over the last 20 years by applying methods from politics, sociolinguistics, law, and economics. However, such a wide range of approaches has inevitably led to some methodological problems mostly concerned with different interpretation of notions that are grounded in more than one research field, e.g. ideology. As for language regimes, the debate lies in the separate use of this term that should not be considered equivalent to language policy regime or just language policy. That is why the focus of the article is to not only discuss the key approaches to language regimes in both political science and sociolinguistics but also to justify the separate use of this notion for language policy research.

 

Keywords: политология, political science, interdisciplinarity, социолингвистика, междисциплинарность, языковая политика, sociolinguistics, language policy, language regime, языковой режим