Popov, E. A. Ethic Identifi cation in the Society by the Means of the Language

Abstract: The article actualizes the problem of ethnocultural integration of people and shows the role of bilingualism in this process. Special attention is paid at the usage of bilingualism as a method of cultural integration of ethnic communities in the system of education and up-bringing of scholars as well as development of the ‘national schools’. The author of the article especially underlines the nature and orientation of ethic identifi cation performed with the help or by the means of bilingualism. On one hand, it actualizes an important role of one’s native language which has a decisive effect on people in the process of acculturation. On the other hand, it does not eliminate the importance of a foreign language which can solve a certain poly-linguistic and poly-cultural situation one may face. These are the aspects the article is mostly devoted to.

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