language policy

The article explores the basic principles and stages in the development of the linguistic policy of the French language in terms of its spread, usage and quality.

The article examines the main principles and stages of the development of language policy with regard to the dissemination, use and status of modern French.

The article discusses the issues of linguistic law operating under the difficult conditions of the multinational and multilingual structure of Swiss society. Particular attention is paid to the peculiarities of conflict regulation, which sometimes arise in the opposite interests of different social groups in the country.

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the status component of modern German in the educational sphere of the city of Tomsk. Registered decline of this language is determined by the tendencies to Americanization, by the recognition of English as the only foreign language, and by the democratization of cultural and language policy in the post-war Federal Republic of Germany.

In this article the factors promoting the replacement of the Breton language and the change of a communicative situation in Lower Brittany in the XIX–XXth centuries are analyzed. The principles of language policy of France, forms and consequences of the introduction of general school education, as well as the importance of the world wars for the unification of the communicative space of the region are described.