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A pragmatic turn in the philosophy of language in the context of problems of preservation and development of minority languages

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By the beginning of the twenty-first century essentialism is giving way to the constructivist paradigm in the field of social sciences and humanities. However, linguistic essentialism survived all the shocks and received a classical form in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativism. The application of this hypothesis to the analysis of linguistic communities puts majority and minority languages in different positions: it makes strong languages even stronger, and simply kills small ones.

Problems of explicating non-traditional religiosity in analytical philosophy of religion

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Traditional logical methods of analytical philosophy are poorly suited for analyzing statements expressing religious views, so analytical philosophy of religion often reduces to linguistic analysis of such statements. This method is often used to analyze theistic judgments. In this case, the explication of the social phenomenon of non-traditional religiosity becomes a very specific problem, as it involves analyzing judgments that express alternative views on the existence of religious objects.