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Maria Ya. Kaplunova
Maria Ya. Kaplunova, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Researcher, Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations, Institute of Linguistics of the RAS, B. Kislovsky per., 1 building 1, 125009 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1481-0624
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Abstract:
In the digital age, the possibilities of communication have expanded significantly, which in turn has contributed to a change in approaches to social research, including research on political activity. Information technologies have contributed to the formation of a modern information space characterized by a high intensity of data exchange. Thus, sociolinguistics, as an interdisciplinary science, one of the objects of study of which is language policy, has faced new challenges in the form of big data, which at the same time open up new opportunities for the development of this field of study, which allows us to talk about the phenomenon of “language policy 2.0” at the present time.
Keywords: big data, information technology, sociolinguistics research methods, language policy.