State Language: Debatable Research Questions

The purpose of the article is to analyze the study of topical problems of the study of the state language. Particular attention is paid to various approaches to understanding the phenomenon of the state language (functional style, a variety of the modern national literary language, the legal status of the national language). The correlation of the concepts “state language” / “national language” / “state language of the republic” / “official language”, etc. is shown. The transformation of the legal statuses of the Russian language and other languages of the peoples of Russia (in connection with the transformations of the 20th century - the beginning of the 21st century) is noted. A generalized description of aspects of the study of the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation, as well as the state languages of the republics, is given. Attention is focused on the novelties of the legislation. The prospects for interdisciplinary research of the state language are outlined. The methodology of Russian studies, sociolinguistics, legal linguistics is applied.