Contemporary sociolinguistic specificity of the Grodno region

Konczewska, Katarzyna

doi:10.17651/SOCJOLING.29.9

Skip to main menu
Skip to search engine
Skip to content
Skip to footer

Download

Title: Contemporary sociolinguistic specificity of the Grodno region

Abstract:

The article presents contemporary sociolinguistic situation of the Grodno region and try to emphasize on its basic elements. The topic has been taken by the author due to the fact that the Belarusian researchers, who focus on the sociolinguistic situation in Belarus usually include only Russian/Belarusian option and rarely refer to Grodno. On the other hand, Polish researchers pay attention primarily to the situation of the Polish language. The article presents the main elements of social language situation, as well as using the key areas of languages and communication taking into accounts the link between language and social facts. Theses presented in this article are the result of extensive research based respectively on: the latest statistics of the National Statistics Committee of Belarus from the last census, passive and participatory observation, several interviews (including biographical) with representatives of various social groups, information on the activities of civil society organizations, as well as known life experience.