FACTORS OF THE CONCEPT OF LINGUISTIC SCANDINAVISM IN THE NORTHERN EUROPE REGION
This article is aimed at the presentation of the concept of linguistic regionalism as the phenomenon has evolved in Scandinavian countries. With the help of the technique of scientific observation, typological generalization and classification the author purports to determine the factors of functioning of national languages in the period of globalization. The results of the research can be summed up as follows: 1) the prerequisite of linguistic Scandinavism is argued to be found in the genetic unity of Scandinavian languages; 2) the concept of linguistic Scandinavism serves as the basic principle of language policy of the Nordic countries to withstand the expanding impact of transnational English; 3) linguistic Scandinavism is claimed to be both manifested as a proof of pan-Scandinavian linguacultural unity and justified as a pragmatic necessity to use English as the main contact language; 4) in the presence of global English linguacultural conceptualization of national language speakers is maintained to be constructed through three-level socialization - national, regional and common European. The article is claimed to present a new approach identifying principles of the concept of linguistic Scandinavism which may be extrapolated on other regional clusters of genetically related languages.