IMPLEMENTATION OF LANGUAGE POLICY IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES DURING POSTCOLONIAL PERIOD
Kurchenkova Elena Anatol'evna
Volgograd State University
Abstract. The author discusses the questions of determining the language policy, suggests the classification of language policies in postcolonial countries, by the example of India considers possible measures at implementing the policy of ethno-linguistic pluralism in the country where there are two official languages ??- English and Hindi, and ascertains that these measures add up to the settlement and streamlining of functional and status allocation of metropolitan (imported) and vernacular (local) languages ??at different levels.
Key words and phrases: языковая политика, индийский английский, лингва франка, этноязыковой плюрализм, официальный язык, вернакулярный язык, язык метрополии, language policy, Indian English, lingua franca, ethno-linguistic pluralism, official language, vernacular language, lang
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