The following issues are expected to be discussed:
- Social linguistics: theory, methods and basic notions
- Language situation and language politics throughout the world
- Language legislation: concepts, implementation and change
- Language contacts, bilingualism and code-switching
- Functioning of languages; functional classification of languages of the world
- Endangered languages
- Modern methods of sociolinguistics
- Language conflicts and their causes
- Language and culture
- Sociolinguistic prognostication
- Sociolinguistic aspect of education
- International languages: social requirements, teaching and functioning
- The sociolinguistic aspects of terminology.