The section ‘Sociolinguistics’ welcomes the reports on the current developments of languages in Russia and abroad:
• innovations related to in the national language as a whole as opposed to its particular parts ; • changes in its social variants; • current state and issues of the ethnic languages; • language policy and its implementation; • changes in correlation between ‘language and power’ in the political situation today; • conceptualisation of the basic categories in the life of society (in particular, geo-positioning), according to folk-linguistics, and others; as well as on general and global issues:• unification and diversification in the language processes;• expanding language contacts and their increasing role in language evolution;• sociolinguistic systems, in particular, correlation between standard and non-standard  variants of the national language in social groups of various kinds, and others.