The symbolic model of language as a tool for studying language conflicts

Abstract

The symbolic model of language as a tool for studying language conflicts

Ivanova D.N., Donchenko E.N.

Incoming article date: 08.10.2019

This article attempts to present the author’s symbolic model of the language, with an emphasis on the practical value of the model for resolving language conflicts. A weighty justification is given for the possibility of a symbolic interpretation of practically any phenomena and objects of reality, which can serve as a methodological key to decoding a single sociocultural code. Such an approach may indicate the discovery of a new vector in understanding the nature of language conflicts. In the model below, you can see many ideas that can provide a rich methodological arsenal of great heuristic power in the field of resolving various kinds of language conflicts

Keywords: symbolic model of language, sociolect, sociocultural code, linguocultural community, language conflicts, language rights, multiculturalism, discrimination, language separatism, language policy