New RUDN Journal - Macrosociolinguistics and Minority Languages

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The World sounds in each language Dear Readers! We are happy to present the first issue of the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of international scope dealing with issues in sociolinguistics and related disciplines - Macrosociolinguistics and Minority Languages (MML). The journal is published by Institute of Modern Languages, Intercultural Communication and Migration, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University. The need for a new platform that would unite various theoretical and methodological approaches in the field of research on minority languages is long overdue. The aim of the MML is to cover multidisciplinary studies of minority languages using methods from various fields of scientific knowledge: macrosociolinguistics, law, ethnology, history, philosophy, psychology and dialectology. The journal is distinguished by an important social mission - preservation and support of minority languages. In this regard, bilingual articles in Russian / English and minority languages will be published on its pages. We are open to contributors studying the issues of sociolinguistic categorization of languages, the dynamics of minority languages and languages in a minority situation, language policy and language planning. We publish articles devoted to the description of both individual specific linguistic situations of a minority type, and articles to which various theoretical constructs and tools for studying minority situations are developed and refined. Since 2019, on the basis of the Institute of Modern Languages, Intercultural Communication and Migration, a number of scientific projects have been implemented aimed at studying the dynamics of minority languages and languages in a minority situation: “Functional dynamics and representation of languages and cultures of internal and external migration in an urbanized environment (No. 056102- 1-274, 2019), “Functional distribution and typology of language needs among migrants in an urban environment” (No. 056112-0-000, 2020), “Language contacts in the metropolis: the linguistic comfort of migrants - the host community” (No. 056115 -2-000, 2021) “Dynamics of sociolinguistic convergence and divergence of languages in a minority situation (No. 056118-0-000, 2022). One of the objectives of our institute is to attract young professionals, postgraduates, master's and bachelor's students in linguistics and philology to work on scientific projects, as we consider the creation of continuity in science to be one of our priority tasks. We decided that the first issue of MML should be special. This is a platform for students, graduate students and young scientists, our colleagues, for those with whom we worked together on our projects, and for those who presented their scientific results at the permanent scientific seminar of our institute “Dynamics of Languages in a Minority Situation”. We give the floor to those who are only making their first steps in science, and to those who have already achieved certain results. The articles of our first issue are diverse in terms of topics and geography of research. Li Syue, PhD student of the Faculty of Philology at RUDN University, presented a paper on the principles and vectors of the dynamics of language policy and language planning in the People's Republic of China in the first decades of the 21st century. The article by Oleksandr D. Vasiukov, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at the European University of St. Petersburg is is devoted to the analysis of the modern language situation in Kashubia, an ethno-cultural region in northern Poland. The research of Angelina Pak, Master’s student with a double degree at RUDN University and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) under the supervision of Alena. S. Demchenko, analyzes the issues of corpus planning related to the modernization of the terminological system in the field of higher education in Kazakhstan, which was the result of the entry of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the Bologna system. Finally, the work of Yulia Alyunina, PhD in Philology at the University of Lyon, explores Wikipedia projects, which are considered in terms of their potential to revitalize and support the languages of the peoples living on the territory of the Russian Federation. We sincerely hope that the research questions covered in the first issue of our journal might be of interest to you.

About the authors

Svetlana A. Mosckvitcheva

RUDN University

Author for correspondence.
Email: mosckvicheva-sa@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8047-7030

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of General and Russian Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology

Moscow, Russia

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