Migration,Language,and Language Personality in the Global Context

This article explores key aspects of migration,modern views on language,and language personality and their interrelations that affect socio-economic,cultural,educational,and security segments of a global labor market.Migration and linguistic dimensions include sociolinguistic issues as well as technological,economic,socio-cultural,and language transformations of the 21st century,which determine policies toward national and foreign languages and globalization of modern education.Our research efforts aim to identify migration-language-personality characteristics relevant for current economic development of the global workforce.Interrelated social-linguistic activities and multinational and multicultural interactions,grounded on digital business and electronic communication and provided by the international workforce,serve for the global businesses and for the national interests as well.In this article,we examine the following considerations:(1)migration issues and factors that determine linguistic implications of migration in the global labor market;(2)language and alternative modern visions on language and its functions;(3)language personality theory and its various interpretations related to social settings in the global context;and(4)challenges for a global workforce/migrants associated with language issues.

On Language, Political Power and the Regulation of Russian Orthography

This interdisciplinary article excavates the history of the most important Russian language reform, which was approved by the Bolshevik Government Decrees more than a century ago, after the October Revolution of 1917. The orthographic reform was a linguistic and educational original effort （1） to promote a new simpler way of spelling of written informational materials, （2） to eliminate ＂double＂ letters and to present more constructive rules for spelling of certain grammar structures, and （3） to increase the population literacy in the Russian-speaking community. Indeed, the effective policy of language regulation was grounded in recommendations developed by special committees and commissions which represented the spelling reform movement in the imperial period of the 19th century and in the early 1900s. According to Russian linguists, language educationists, activists, and politicians, the proposed new rules could be implemented in a realistic way for the benefit of all learners, the language system, and the printing industry as well. The reform of Russian orthography was not an exercise in revolutionary violence or the Bolshevik＇ evil intentions, as some frustrated scholars condemned this reform. This article provides relevant legislative documents issued in 1917-1918, that reflected revolutionary transformations including orthography that became an issue of politics. The use of new orthographic rules had special implications for language learning practices in schools and changed costs of typing and printing.