“LINGUISTIC” EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY

Abstract

The article examines the factors of linguistic integration, the desire of national languages to preserve their identity, the role of the European Union in these processes. Attention is paid to such active factors of integration as Anglo- American borrowings and the Internet. The controversial issue of the influence of borrowings on the linguistic picture of the world is considered. As a counteraction to the factor of integration is the language policy aimed at preserving identity. The authors consider two points of view, two opposing opinions on the issue of regional integration in the world geopolitical, economic, military, cultural and linguistic space: regionalization as an integral part of globalization; regionalization as an alternative to globalization. The authors emphasize that in the era of world globalization, integration processes take place not only in the economy and culture, but also in the language. Moreover, economy and culture are primary in relation to language. Language integration is understood in a broad and narrow sense. In a broad sense – as a process of standardization, unification of language tools in the areas of language use related to the socio-political, economic, cultural life of modern society. In a narrow sense, it is associated with issues of borrowing, primarily from English, and both neutral and expressive means are borrowed. The media and the global information network Internet are the most sensitive to the integration processes. The highest degree of language integration is internationalization, which is manifested mainly in scientific, scientific-technical, political, international legal, pedagogical terminology (as a result of the Bologna Convention). It is summarized that today globalization is one of the main factors and driving forces of the development of the world community. The problems of globalization, including linguistic, are among the most pressing and acute in the modern world, as they are of a universal nature and have a planetary scale of manifestation.