Open AccessDevelopments in language education, polyglottery and geolinguistics
Author(s) -
Grigory Kazakov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
filologičeskie nauki v mgimo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3717
pISSN - 2410-2423
DOI - 10.24833/2410-2423-2021-4-28-9-13
Subject(s) - milestone , polyglot , sociolinguistics , bachelor , multilingualism , context (archaeology) , graduation (instrument) , applied linguistics , sociology , linguistics , field (mathematics) , political science , media studies , pedagogy , history , engineering , computer science , philosophy , mechanical engineering , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics , law , programming language
This paper offers an overview of the major events and trends in the field of polyglottery as a science (the study of consciously attained individual multilingualism) from 2010 to 2021 with special attention to its implications for language education and its connections with geolinguistics (understood as global or geographically specified sociolinguistics in the tradition of the American Society of Geolinguistics). Mentioned are, among other things, the milestone academic conferences in New York, Tokyo and Moscow, the creation of the first organized polyglot group in East Asia, and the first graduation papers on polyglottery defended for a bachelor’s degree in linguistics. An attempt is made to put these research results and ideas in general scientific context