PROVOCATING FACTORS AND DIRECT TRIGGERS OF LANGUAGE CONFLICTS

Abstract

The article considers a language conflict as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, analyzes factors influencing the emergence of conflict moods among speakers in а language community. An overview of reasons for the emergence of a language conflict is presented, namely: the result of the language policy, the clash of interests of the elites of the linguistic community, language purism, strengthening in the intensity of language contacts in a multi-ethnic space. Both provoking factors and direct triggers of the language conflict are considered. The stimuli accompanying the emergence of a language conflict in a language community are described, which can later be analyzed as markers for measuring the conflict potential in a language community under consideration. The article describes a two-component technique that can act as a tool for measuring the inner group anxiety among speakers.