Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations

Established in 1989 on the basis of the Sociolinguistics Section by the RAS Presidium decree.

Research Focuses

1. theory, conceptual framework, and methods of sociolinguistics;
2. language situations and language policies in Russia and abroad;
3. language contacts, international and inter-ethnic languages; bilingualism and polylingualism;
4. language conflicts and their mediation; regulation of ethnolingual relationship in law;
5. mediation of language conflicts in the international practice;
6. endangered languages around the globe;
7. general trends in the dynamics of the worldwide linguistic processes
8. history of sociolinguistics;
9. development of the conceptual framework and methodology of sociolingustic prognosis;
10. development of the general principles of a people's linguistic biography.

Publications

• Kondraškina, E. (1986). Indonezija. Jazykovaja situacija i jazykovaja politika [Indonesia. Language situation and language policy]. Moscow.
• Kondraškina, E. (2008). Dinamika funkcional'nogo razvitija marijskogo jazyka [Dynamics of the Mari language functional development]. Moscow.
• Pis'mennye jazyki mira: Rossijskaja Federacija. Sociolingvističeskaja enciklopedija [Written languages of the world: Russian Federation. Encyclopedia of sociolinguistics]. Solncev, V. & Mixalčenko, V. (Eds.). Book 1 — Мoscow, Academia, 2000.
• Pis'mennye jazyki mira: Rossijskaja Federacija. Sociolingvističeskaja enciklopedija [Written languages of the world: Russian Federation. Encyclopedia of sociolinguistics]. Mixalčenko, V. (Ed.). Book 2 — Мoscow, Academia, 2003.
• Jazyk i obščestvo na poroge novogo tysjačeletija: itogi i perspektivy. [Language and society at the threshold of the next millennium: past outcomes and new prospects]. Moscow, 2001.
• Slovar' sociolingvističeskix terminov [Sociolinguistics dictionary]. Mixalčenko, V. (Ed.). Moscow, 2006
• Materialy konferencii "Jazyk i obščestvo v sovremennoj Rossii i drugix stranax" [Language and society in modern Russia and abroad. Conference materials]. Bitkeeva, A. & Mixalčenko, V. (Eds.). Moscow: Institute of Linguistics RAS, 2010.
• Nacional'nye jazyki v epoxu globalizacii: Rossija — Mongolija [National languages in the globalization era: Russia — Mongolia]. Bitkeeva, A. & Mixalčenko, V. (Eds.). Moscow — Ulan-Bator: Tezaurus, 2011 (title page, table of contents, and foreword).
• Jazykovaja politika i jazykovye konflikty v sovremennom mire. Materialy Meždunarodnoj konferencii [Language policies and language conflicts in the modern world. International conference materials]. Bitkeeva, A. & Mixalčenko, V. (Eds.). Moscow, 2014.
• Jazykovaja politika v kontekste sovremenny jazykovyx processov [Language policy in the context of the current linguistic processes]. Bitkeeva, A. (Ed.). Мoscow: Azbukovnik, 2015. 471 pp. (title page, table of contents, and foreword)
• Jazyk i obščestvo. Encyklopedija [Language and society. Encyclopedia]. Mixalčenko, V. (Ed.). Мoscow: Azbukovnik, 2016. – 872 pp.
• Jazyki v polietničeskom gosudarstve: razbitie, planirovanie, prognozirovanie. Materialy Meždunarodnoj konferencii [Languages in a polyethnic country: development, planning, prognostication. International conference materials]. Bitkeeva, A., Kirilenko, S., Dyrxeeva G. & Cyrenov, B. (Eds.). Ulan-Ude, 2019.
• Zakonomernosti sociokulturnogo razvitija jazykov v polietničeskix stranax mira: Rossija-V'etnam [General principles of sociocultural development in polyethnic countries of the world: Russia-Vietnam]. Bitkeeva, A., Mixalčenko, V. & Nguen Van X'ep (Eds.). Moscow: IMLI RAS, 2020. 704 pp.
• Kožemjakina, V. (2020). Francuzskaja Amerika v prošlom i nastojaščem. Sociolingvističeskoe issledovanie [French America in the past and the present. A sociolinguistic study]. Moscow: Institute of Linguistics RAS, 2020, 406 pp.

Projects

• Languages of Russia. A sociolinguistic project. Analytical processing of sociolinguistic information. Principal investigator: Mixalčenko, V..
• General principles of sociocultural development in polyethnic countries of the world (Russia-Vietnam). Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations (Institute of Linguistics RAS) and Institute of Linguistics (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) collaboration. Principal investigator: Bitkeeva, A. PhD.
• Language situation in Russia. Institute of Linguistics RAS and Shanghai International Studies University collaboration. (2021-2023). Principal investigator Alpatov, V.; 
• Prognostication methods and scenarios of future development for language policies (as exemplified by the multilingual Russian Federation). Funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant. 2021-2023. Principal investigator: Bitkeeva, A.; 
• Volkswagen Schtiftung research grant, 2020-2022;
• Preservation of linguistic and cultural diversity and sustained development of the Russian Arctic and Subarctic. Funded by the Russian government major research grant. 2020-2023. Principal investigator Grenoble L. A., University of Chicago, project participants Bitkeeva, A. & Kaplunova, M..

Association of Russian Sociolinguists

The Association's mission is to support Russian sociolinguists and establish professional connections between them, to promote and advance international cooperation in the field of sociolinguistics. For further details see the Association's page.

Contact

Moscow 125009
Bolshoy Kislovskiy per., 1/12
Institute of Linguistics RAS, office 28
Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations
Phone: (495) 690-52-68
E-mail: socioling [at] iling-ran.ru