Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Moscow, mayorovacatherine@gmail.com
The past two decades have become the era of so called «cancel culture» that can now be observed in almost any sphere of public life. Any person, group of people or organization accused of a socially reprehensible action or expressing an unpopular opinion may be «canceled», i.e. publicly condemned via social networks and boycotted. In the present-day geopolitical situation there are opinions suggesting that Russia as a country along with the Russian language are being cancelled. The paper considers the current attitude towards the Russian language through the analysis of the Russian and foreign mass media. The author is attempting to see if we are now witnessing the trend of cancelling a language.
cancel culture; language conflict; language policy; the Russian language
Download textFor citing: Mayorova, E.V. (2022). Cancel culture: is it possible to cancel a language? Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 2(9), pp. 77-83. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2022.02.06