Linguistics: Analysis of Political or Gendered Discourse and Sociology of Language

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LINGUISTICS 2
Part 1
Analysis of Political or Gendered Discourse
The problems associated with social aging processes have not been recognized for a long
time as the social and cultural priorities of the development of the society. Despite the fact
that they were reflected in political programs and official documents of the transformational
period, their practical resolution was limited to guaranteed minimum retirement support of a
late age. The crisis of social policy towards older people was manifested in the assessment of
old age from the standpoint of the desirability of its exclusively socio-economic support. The
focus of attention of the official ideology is still shifted to how economically sound and
promising is the current social security system in relation to the representatives of the third
age (Akmajian, et al,2017).
The very prospect of an aging society contributes to the development of an integrated social
policy that takes into account both the capabilities of people that arise at different age periods
of life and the consequences of an aging population. As a result, the specified social
phenomenon acquires the status of cultural value, an equivalent stage in the chain of
structural organization of the age stages of life and place in the social space.
Interest in sociolinguistic issues is quite natural. On the one hand, it is determined by the
needs of modern society, which is in dire need of scientifically-developed principles of
language policy and language construction, and on the other, it is a kind of reaction to the
linguistic orientation of structural linguistics, which excluded the social context from
consideration (Coulthard, Johnson, & Wright, 2016).
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LINGUISTICS 3
The second approach, called "sociology of language", provides for broader and far-reaching
tasks: the integration of linguistic and social structures within the framework of a sign theory
based on the unification of linguistics with other social sciences and aimed at figuring out
how signs are used in the context of public life. A characteristic feature of sociolinguistics as
an interdisciplinary science is not just a mechanical connection of the relevant sections of
linguistics and sociology, not just their movement towards each other in order to solve border
problems, but unification based on a single theory, a common understanding of the object and
objectives of the research, a single conceptual apparatus and a common set research methods
and procedures (Litosseliti, 2018).
Description and analysis of the connection between language and society is the subject of
sociolinguistics or sociology of language, for a science that emerged in the middle of the 20th
century at the junction of two disciplines of linguistics and sociology. The degree of
assimilation of new words, obviously, depends on such social characteristics of speakers as
age, sex, level of education, degree of proficiency in foreign languages, social status, etc.
Therefore, the assimilation and activation in the speech of a new borrowed vocabulary,
accelerating adaptation to new conditions and realities of modern social life, becomes an
urgent problem. The influence of the development of technical and cultural contacts with
foreign countries, the development of international cooperation on the emergence of foreign
language borrowings is considered (Pennycook, 2017).
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These processes cause an increase in public concern on the part of various political,
social and cultural groups in preserving cultural identity, in “identity politics” and how to
respond to such policies from other groups.