MOBILITY PARADIGM IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDIES: LANGUAGE OF INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MIGRATION

Natalia Udina

Assoc. Prof. RUDN University, Moscow, RUSSIA, udinann@gmail.com

Abstract

Mobility paradigm is a new paradigm shift in social sciences, which theoretical development brought about new perspectives for sociolinguistics analysis of various discourses. The study of socially important phenomenon such as international migration and its particular segment – labour migration and legislation regulating these processes reveal the importance of their specific language. Sociolinguistics being an applied and interdisciplinary branch of linguistics focuses on current problems of society and the way language develops and functions in various discourses, contributing to understanding and resolving social problems through linguistic analysis.

Mobility principle focuses on dynamic context and changes and provides analysis of factors influencing discourse and communication.  Being a multifaceted phenomenon labour migration encompasses a great variety of contexts: social, linguistic, legal, academic, professional, cross-cultural, interpersonal and others. The complexity of multilateral communication necessitates new approaches which mobility paradigm provides considering language of migration at a macro-linguistics level: its development, meaning and functions in a new environment and at a micro-linguistics level which concerns the use of particular language structures and terminology.

The language of international labor migration is of particular importance for translators and interpreters. The studies are focused on new developments in labour migration language and translation problems with the view of contributing to translation studies in this field.

This paper was prepared with the support of the RUDN University program 5-100

Keywords: sociolinguistics models, mobility paradigm, language of labor migration, language and social interaction, translation


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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of INTCESS 2019- 6th International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 4-6 February 2019- Dubai, UAE

ISBN: 978-605-82433-5-4