Spain: Cultural Policy in Action
Being one of the most widely used European languages in the world, Spanish began the process of territorial expansion in 1492 after the discovery and the subsequent conquest of Central and South America. With regard to language, rivalry between the world's leading maritime powers resulted in propagation of Spanish and Portuguese in the Western Hemisphere both around and south of the Equator. In the Spanish colonies of the New World, the metropolitan language acquired...
Stop Retreating
The Russian language by right represents the cultural and historical base of Russia’s statehood and an indispensable means to express the values of the entire Russian World. It ranks among the leading languages of the world, and serves as one of the UN’s six official languages and a medium of international, ethnic and cultural exchanges. At the same time, the disintegration of the USSR was a heavy blow on the status of the language. The number of Russian speakers has...
... been, and remains inescapable, as, indeed, to all sorts of other forecasts.
In order to characterize the situation in the linguistic prediction and in the area that it is trying to study (in other words, tries to predict the future development of the world languages), first of all, it is necessary to briefly explain what the development of language means and what questions on its future status are usually asked. Meanwhile, speaking of the “future of the language” really means some very ...
