SPHERES OF LANGUAGE USE

Аннотация

This article presents the idea that language can satisfy a wide range of communicative needs of individuals and
society as a whole, and that different spheres of language use (or different languages, in the case of a non-monolingual
society) are distinguished according to various spheres of human activity, such as production, education, science, culture,
trade, and everyday life. A sphere of language use is defined as a sphere of extralinguistic reality characterized by the
relative uniformity of communicative needs, for the satisfaction of which speakers deliberately select linguistic means and
the rules for combining them. The article also substantiates the idea that, as a result of the selection of linguistic means
and the rules governing their combination, a more or less stable tradition is formed within a particular linguistic community,
linking a specific sphere of human activity with a particular linguistic code (subcode), namely an independent language or
a subsystem of the national language