English linguistic component in the language of modern Ukraine

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  • L L Pylypenko ,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog0(276).2017.065%20-%2071

Abstract

The issue of language contacts is one of the central issues in modern linguistics. Languages and dialects live and develop in continuous and close interaction that influences all sides and levels of interacting languages. The purpose this paper is to analyze the interaction of Ukrainian and English languages in the economic and cultural conditions of modern Ukraine, influenced by the social situation of language behavior, based on the functional typology of languages. Assessment of the place of the English language component in Ukraine can be both positive and negative, in both cases, however, its character will by no means be linguistic, but political. For further studies it is better follow a descriptive, and not prescriptive, attitude toward linguistic data. If the phenomenon is systematic, it indicates the evolution of the language, rather than the bad intentions or mistakes of the speakers. A philologist can only observe and interpret it.

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Published

2018-12-28

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No. 276 (2017): Scientific Herald of National University of Life And Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

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