ts, commoners, townspeople, noble lords and courtiers, historians, elder, preacher, wife, husband, and even small children. The term "C." first applied in 1952 an American sociologist Herman Curry.of the key concepts of AS is the language situation - a set of forms of existence of language, which serves the continuum of communication in a particular ethnic community or administrative-territorial association.of language situations:
) endohlosni - operates several subsystems of one language (territorial dialects sotsiolekty);
) ekzohlosni - a set of multiple languages ​​of communication in society;
) mixed.characteristic of the language situation:
) degree riznomovnosti in the region;
) the degree of genetic closeness of languages, operating in the region;
) the proportion of speakers using different languages;
) presence or absence of standardization and normalization;
) assessment of the situation by speaking of different categories.policy - the deliberate and purposeful leadership of the social language activities and impact on the everyday speech of its improvement as an essential means of communication and the overall index of human culture.that are important in terms of language policy:
) norms and stylistic differentiation of literary language;
) vzirtsevist language print and electronic media, government documents, parliamentary speeches, speeches of leading political figures;
) improve the language culture in middle and high school;
) systematic and systematic promotion of linguistic knowledge in print, on radio, television;
) (for multi-country) taking into account the problems of multilingualism and the official state language, taking into account the linguistic rights of ethnic minorities;
) establishment of community and government organizations designed to monitor and adjust the state language policy, the introduction of the "language police" (in France). functioning of languages ​​in Ukraine is regulated by a number of regulations and departmental documents, content often is controversial:
) Constitution of Ukraine;
) Law of Ukraine "On Languages ​​in Ukrainian SSR" on 28/10/1998;
) The decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine concerning official interpretation of Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine from 14.12.1999 № 10-rp/99;
) international instruments which define the functioning of languages ​​in various spheres of existence of society and ratified by Ukraine (European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ​​of 05.11.1992, ratified by Law of 15 May 2003; Framework ...
