The multi-sidedness of lingua-academic approaches towards the role of language in world politics

The relevance of the following article is determined by the increasing value of the linguistic factor in global politics. The given part of the article introduces a complex approach to language as social phenomenon. All of these approaches find application in this research, thus helping to point out the complexity of it in the modern world. The article explores languages as a means to express the mindset of nations in the world, language as a conductor of cultures; language as a source of contradictions in international relations between countries; language as an element that influences economic relations, language as a tool for global political influence used by countries. This article explores various global events, international relations, activity of international governmental and nongovernmental organizations, interaction and intertwining of diverse global political actors, national relations and contradictions, regional conflicts and their settlement or, on the contrary, their escalation are rather dependent upon the nature of cross-language relations and the institutionalization of unification processes for countries and peoples who share the same language and use it to establish global, regional or national language policies. Many global events implement the ideas of monoculturalism, multilingualism, linguistic genocide, lingua-political misbalance of public forces, national interests related to its language and its role in the world, as well as the presence or absence of lingua-political tension in multilingual countries.