Main areas of research
- comparative interdisciplinary study of languages and cultures in various social and situational contexts;
- research of migration processes and ways of socio- cultural adaptation of migrants;
- study of the dynamics of minority languages and languages in a minority situation, including migration languages;
- development of a typology of languages in a minority situation based on parameters related to territorial dynamics, dynamics of language planning and dynamics of standardization;
- sociolinguistic categorization of the language space (allocation of categories such as state language, official language, native language, etc. depending on the social functions and roles of the language being studied); identification, institutionalization and socialization of the minority idiom;
- study of a number of specific language situations.