THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ANGLO-BARBARISM IN THE UKRAINIAN EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

Abstract

Goal. Our goal is to investigate and explore the social context of anglo-barbarismin the educational sphere, i.e. to determine the complex of extralingual factors creating conditions for imposition of the English language and Anglicisms under the guise of allegedly necessary and useful phenomena of globalization and internationalization of the education. Methods. The main methodological basis of our research is the priority of the national principle and interest in assessment of socio-lingual phenomena in the area of foreign-language influence and use of descriptive-analytical method enabling to explore the main mechanisms of anglo-barbarism in the Ukrainian educational domain. Results: a) antagonism between the social and political phenomenon of globalism and nationalism as a worldview and linguistic confrontation under condition of insufficient formation of the Ukrainian nation is explored; b) the meaning of the term anglo-barbarism is explained as the most applicable to contemporary expansionary processes in educational environments; c) the Ukrainian legislative environment facilitating educational processes of the state Ukrainian language being replaced by the English language is defined and analyzed; d) a model of balanced language policy with the language-national priority is proposed. Conclusions. Extralingual factors play a decisive role in the processes of vocabulary borrowings. As a rule, a donor language is a language of the world’s to economic and political state with aggressive language policy of globalization-liberal character. Though, it does not mean that other states must adhere to this policy. On the contrary, one should reston the national principle with one’s own language priority, which, alas, taking into account the adopted laws and various educational regulations, we do not have in the Ukrainian State. Neither the language legislative environment, nor the general denationalized thought in the educational sphere work for actualization of our own language opportunities, but rather are targeted at replacement of the Ukrainian language by English or Russian. Integration into the so called globalized world with a positive outcome for our own country is only possible under condition of education on specificnationallanguagebasis.