English Linguistic Culture Influence On The Russian Language Space (21st Century)

Olesya Yermolova

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2020.08.52

Abstract

At the present stage of evolution, language occupies an important place in the value system of any country. In the context of globalization, there is a cooperation between different countries in the fields of science, economics, politics, culture, which leads to significant changes in national languages and cultures. Language is not a stable quantity; it is dynamic and capable of development. The reasons for the leading status of the English language against the background of other languages and its growing influence on other linguistic cultures are investigated. Due to the impossibility of countries to protect themselves from such an English-language introduction, the issue of preserving the national language, its features, cultural values and national identity comes to the fore. A variant of global bilingualism or multilingualism is considered as a way to solve emerging linguistic and cultural problems. Learning a foreign language is not difficult for a modern person, it is considered a variant of the norm and is welcomed in existing living conditions. The assumptions of modern Russian and foreign linguists about the prospects for the development and dissemination of English in the global language space are given. The article focuses on the influence of English linguistic culture on the Russian linguistic and cultural space, compares the mentality of the English-speaking and Russian-speaking peoples, and identifies the positive and negative phenomena of this influence.

Highlights

In the 21st century, the processes of globalization continue to intensify and occupy leading positions in the international arena
The process of introducing English into the Russian language space began from the time of Peter the Great during the period of the development of navigation and continues to this day
“Borrowing is an element of a foreign language transferred from one language to another as a result of language contacts, as well as the process of transition of elements of one language to another” (Bukina, 2016, p. 91)

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Introduction

In the 21st century, the processes of globalization continue to intensify and occupy leading positions in the international arena. “the concept of “language space” is most often used in the meaning of a stable area of distribution of a particular language, as a mother tongue and officially fixed in a certain territory” The fact that the language space is inextricably linked with the sociocultural space remains unchanged, together they form part of the semiosphere and enter the cultural field of action, reflecting the “language-culture” relationship. The language spaces of different languages are not isolated, they interact and interpenetrate each other, affect each other. They change in the process of globalization under the influence of intercultural communication, and together they form a global language space

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