Globalization influence on linguistic and cultural state due to the language contacts’ interaction

• Main Authors: Jerome Baghana, Tatiana G. Voloshina, Yana A. Glebova, Emilia A. Bocharova, Minara A. Radovich
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editorial AAR 2020-12-01
• Series: Laplage em Revista
• Subjects: Hybrid languages; Nigerian english; Phonetic changes; Lexical and syntactic changes
• Online Access: https://laplageemrevista.editorialaar.com/index.php/lpg1/article/view/579

The article deals with the peculiarities of linguistic and cultural changes of language structure influenced by globalization process within the language contacts’ interaction. The analysis of various aspects in the modern society proves the dominance of the English language in the formation of the world collaboration. According to the research, English hybrid languages or new Englishes, based on the Standard English norms, are forced to adapt to the local linguistic and cultural needs. These hybrid languages perform the mixture of indigenous languages’ structure and Standard English rules, thought in many cases English dominates and replaces phonetic, lexical, syntactic elements of indigenous languages. Much attention in the work is paid to the peculiarities of such hybrid language as Nigerian English, which presents the local language variant, functioning in Nigeria. Owing to language contacts’ cooperation, Nigerian English combines the language features of Standard English rules and Nigerian local languages’ peculiarities.