ENGLISHIZATION IN THE ASPECT OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS (ENGLISH-RUSSIAN-CHINESE PARALLELS)
The article refers to the unique linguistic phenomenon of Englishization that affects the major areas of human activities and generates structural changes in various world languages. The article provides a definition of Englishization, lists the characteristics of the process and describes the examples of Russian and Chinese languages (translated from English), demonstrating that Englishization leads either to Internationalization or to the language erosion, requiring linguistic ecology measures.