Modern linguistic situation and trends in development of Russian standard language

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Grigory Ya. Solganik

Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head at the Chair of Russian Language Stylistics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: g4sol@yandex.ru

Section: Media Language

The article is dedicated to analysis of modern language situation in Russia. The main factors of influence upon development of standard Russian are analyzed. The first place among these factors belongs to media language. The perspectives of development of modern Russian standard language are characterized.

Keywords: language situation, media language, mass culture, postmodernism, standard language, national language