The Phenomenon of Anglo-barbarization in the Ukrainian Educational and Scientific Environment: History and Modernity
The article for the first time raises the problem of foreign languages reception and borrowings in the historical-comparative and diachronic-synchronous context. The object of the research is educational and scientific sphere (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) on the use of foreign languages and borrowings. The functioning of the Church Slavonic and Latin languages as the most widespread in Ukrainian space in the late Middle Ages and Pre-Modern times is analyzed with a projection on the current dominance of English language and anglicisms in the educational and scientific field. To reflect the processes of excessive and unmotivated use of anglicisms, the term Anglo-Barbarization was introduced as a linguistic-social and linguistic-psychological pathological phenomenon that arises at the turn of historical events and signals the absence of mental resistance of the people-language to the unprecedented flow of borrowing which become a de facto replacement of their language and create from it an anti-cultural flow of subordinate communication; it is a primitive denial of the law of balance of foreign and specific words in phonetic, word-forming and grammatical adaptation and ethnocultural inability to call one's own concepts as specific words. According to historical retrospect, the focus on foreign languages as a priority in educational and scientific spheres — Church Slavonic, Latin, Greek, Polish — and mass borrowings from them did not help Ukrainian national self-awareness and did not lead to the restoration of the lost Ukrainian state within its ethnographic boundaries. On the contrary, the excessive circulation of foreign languages in the cultural and political space of Ukraine and their priority in the field of education and science has led to more than a couple of centuries of backwardness of Ukrainian state-building processes compared to the nearest and farthest neighbors. Orientation to others alienated Ukrainians from themselves. Historical experience of foreign languages circulation in ...