LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION SPACE IN THE CONTEXT OF UKRAINIAN LEGISLATION: SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS

Abstract

The article focuses on the functioning of the language and information space as a marker of the state and on the choice of the language of information. The relationship between language and information is taking on new forms in the context of globalization and the intensive development of information dissemination. The information society is formed in the system of legislative, quantitative and qualitative dimensions of the language and information environment. The author outlines the prognostic prospects of the impact of the language and information space on the dynamics of the language situation, attitudes towards language and information security in general. A promising goal of the study is to determine the parameters of the language and information space as a sociolinguistic concept. The key issues of the relationship between language and information from the point of view of sociolinguistics are the choice of the language of information and the possibilities of this choice, the balance of the legislative and regulatory framework on language and information issues, and the orientation of language management in the information space. The variability of language-information relations in this context is traced in terms of national, community and individual information needs. Language-information relations in the parameters of language choice and the principles of current legislation are measured by sociolinguistic categories such as language power, language consciousness, communicative convenience, language rights, language strategies, etc. The spread and power of languages is usually related to their communicative and demographic characteristics. In the context of the study, we also talk about the information power of a language as an indicator of the language’s presence in the information space. The importance of the influence of language policy and language planning on the formation of the language and information space of the state is emphasized. Considerable attention is paid to the problems of choosing the language of information in the context of information security.