Moscow International Academy, Russia, Moscow
The article deals critically with some common features of leading (communicatively strong) European languages: the influence of global English and the languages of migrants, the rising language reflection in the academic society and beyond it; the new conceptions of language, activisation and politization of the discussion of universalists and linguadeterminists. Some proposals for the cultivation of European languages are being formulated.
globalization, sociolinguistics, language policy, European languages, migrant languages, pigeonization, global English / world Englishes, linguaphilosophy
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