Polylinguism and multiculturalism in the communication and educational space

Tatyana Lipai,Evgeniya Khinevich

doi:10.16926/pe.2021.14.09

Abstract

The problems of the relationship between language and society attract the attention of researchers from different countries representing various scientific areas: philosophy, history, biology, linguistics, theology, pedagogy, psychology, etc. This study actualizes the sociological approach to the study of the social determinants of the formation of polylingualism as a means of professional communication. According to the sociological results, about 70% of the world's population, to one degree or another, speaks two or more languages, which imposes additional obligations on workers providing international professional communications (Beacco, 2002). Modern multilingual interaction should not be one-sidedly understood only as a borrowing of professional foreign language terminology. It includes the social background of the linguistic material: traditions, mimic and pantomimic codes, the national picture of the world - and becomes the most important factor in professionalization. Methods of systemic and functional analysis, comparison. generalization and collection of empirical data (expert interviews, content analysis).

Highlights

Polylinguism in the narrow sense “means more or less fluency in two or more foreign languages; polylinguism in the broadest sense of the word is a relative knowledge of foreign languages, the ability to use them in one way or another in certain spheres of communication” (Filin, 1962, 3–12)
The origins of the term “polylingualism” in the term “bilingualism” – bilingualism, simultaneous possession of two or more languages. In this definition, polylinguism is qualified as an integral part of bilingualism, in our opinion, on the contrary, bilingualism is a part of polylinguism
Polylinguism plays a noticeable role in social processes caused by the desire of various social groups through linguistic factors to influence the conditions prevailing in society in order to satisfy certain interests

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Tatyana LIPAI https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9186-9806 Minsk City Institute of Education Development. Evgeniya KHINEVICH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1074-4914 Municipal budgetary institution of additional education “House of Children’s Creativity” DRIADA. This study actualizes the sociological approach to the study of the social determinants of the formation of polylingualism as a means of professional communication. Modern multilingual interaction should not be one-sidedly understood only as a borrowing of professional foreign language terminology. It includes the social background of the linguistic material: traditions, mimic and pantomimic codes, the national picture of the world – and becomes the most important factor in professionalization. Methods of systemic and functional analysis, comparison. Generalization and collection of empirical data (expert interviews, content analysis)

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