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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AS EXTRALINGUISTIC FACTOR
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This article considers the attempt to examine and analyze factors which influence the process of choice and preference of this or that national language as lingua franca by the global community, explores reasons and situations favoring the genesis of the English language as the global language, draws as analogy with other languages, which in different periods of the human history played the role of the universal communication language. It is assumed that the international communication reveals itself as an extralinguistic factor, which is its characteristic, and acts as the environment, providing the evolving and developing of the institutionally-discursive convergence modes and the choice of the tool of such convergence (the intermediary language) is made. The article looks into the synallagmatic nature of the "information society-universal language (lingua franca)" dichotomy, pointing out that in the process of communicating the values of the English-speaking world, the English language as lingua franca absorbs the peculiar patterns of the culture where it is used and maintained. Taking into consideration the fact that the English language is holding strong positions as the international communication tool, it's essential to study the phenomenon of the English language as international, and understanding the origins, roots and causes of the English language globalization may help to higher motivation in the formation and development of the foreign language professional competence of the English language learners.
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