Globalization and Language Policy

Abstract

An attempt is made to illuminate the acute issues of the relationship between globalization and language policy on the example of Russification as a process of purposeful homogenization in language terms during the years of Soviet rule. Types of language policy (vernaculization, monolinguism, multilingualism) are considered as a response to the pressure of globalization.

Keywords

• globalization
• language of globalization
• vernaculization
• monolinguism
• multilingualism