Language and Modernity
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue
Abstract
The contemporary Ukrainian society allocates two types of the sociocultural formations, namely traditional and modern. Each of these two has its own values with one mutual value, that is language. According to Robert Hollinger the terms traditional and modern refer to the types of society. As a rule, the traditional society is largely ‘rural, agricultural, authoritarian, religious, relatively small in population, relatively homogeneous and precapitalist or early capitalist’; vice versa the modern society is characterized by ‘the growth of urban areas, various forms of capitalism, democracy, science and technology, massive population grown and concentration, and cultural, political, and religious heterogeneity’ [see 10]. The different features – rural, authoritarian, homogeneous vs urban, democracy, heterogeneity – determine the social attitude to the language; the social functions of the language; the tradition of the language legislation; and the strategies and practices of the languages confrontation or collaboration. It is important to use only one language which has a great value for ‘rural, authoritarian, homogeneous’ society. Here this one language has three main functions: consolidating, separating and integrating and provides the homogeneity. The legislation is aimed at protecting this language. The ‘urban, democracy, heterogeneity’ society provides the other social lingual strategies. The language continues to be the value but it’s not already about the exclusiveness. Much more important is the opportunity of the language to support the changes and diversities; to be the active player in the economic, politic, intellectual spheres; to be able to co-live and co-work with the other languages in multilingual social space in the time of globality.
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О. М. Демська
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