The Role of Information Units in the Legal and Linguistic System of a Multilingual City

Abstract

Law, like many other sciences, has acknowledged globalization since the early 1990s of the 20th century. Prior to the new development, i.e., internationalization, this law had to deal with the phenomenon of internationalization, which governs interactions between two or more states regardless of their geographic location. e. A wider range of legal areas are covered by the globalization of law. The process of developing legal rules has changed, and new rule-making institutions have entered the legal system. These are two effects of globalization on the law. The composition of the people who created the legal rule has been influenced by factors like the globalization of the economy, the internationalization of law, and the crisis of the government's democratic legitimacy. The article offers a novel method for examining the linguistic environment of a city with multiple languages, dividing the environment into monolingual and multilingual information units of various types. By an information unit, we mean a segment of the linguistic landscape that is functionally delimited from other information units, while territorial isolation from other units of information may or may not take place. Information units, which contain lexical units belonging to different languages, are called in our research multilingual information units. Multilingual units can be expressed by a phrase, a sentence, a text; we also refer to multilingual information units compound words formed from morphemes of different languages, abbreviations containing letters of different alphabets, etc. Each multilingual unit is not built on the principle of duplicating information in another language. Monolingual information units are such units of information, words (morphemes of one word) in which are given in one language. The quantitative presence of multilingual units in the linguistic landscape of Kazan is 25%, which is an indicator of language integration in the period from September to December 2019.