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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">filnauki</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Филологические науки в МГИМО</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>MGIMO Journal of Language Research and Teaching</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2410-2423</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2782-3717</issn><publisher><publisher-name>МГИМО МИД России</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24833/2410-2423-2022-3-32-58-69</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">filnauki-427</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Исследования полиглотии</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>RESEARCH ON POLYGLOTTERY</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>О состоянии мультилингвизма и полиглотии в Японии</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>On the state of multilingualism and polyglottery in Japan</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Тараканов</surname><given-names>И. О.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Tarakanov</surname><given-names>I. O.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Игорь Олегович Тараканов – преподаватель английского языка факультета иностранных языков и аспирант последипломной программы по иностранным языкам  </p><p>175-8571, Токио, Итабаси-ку, Такасимадайра, 1-9-1</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Igor Tarakanov is an Instructor of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and a PhD student at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages of the said university </p><p>1-9-1, Takashimadaira, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 175-8571</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">eugraph25@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Университет Дайто-Бунка</institution><country>Япония</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Daito Bunka University</institution><country>Japan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>02</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>58</fpage><lpage>69</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Тараканов И.О., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Тараканов И.О.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Tarakanov I.O.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://philnauki.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/427">https://philnauki.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/427</self-uri><abstract><p>В исследовании, проведённом для данной статьи, рассматривается проблема мультилингвизма и полиглотии в современной Японии, а также обсуждается взаимосвязь между этими явлениями и то, как они влияют друг на друга. Прежде чем рассмотреть вопрос о полиглотах в Японии, представилось целесообразным сначала проанализировать, кем может быть полиглот, а кем нет, и чем этот термин может отличаться от слова «мультилингв» в контексте Японии, поскольку можно предположить, что, даже если для японца два этих термина охватывают во многом одну и ту же семантическую область, они не являются, как сейчас принято понимать, полностью равнозначными и их не следует считать взаимозаменяемыми. Этот вопрос рассматривается в разделе, посвящённом словарным определениям. Во втором разделе, посвящённом факторам языкового родства, типологии и культуры и рассматривающим взгляды японцев на язык и многоязычие, анализируются препятствия на пути к полиглотии, с которыми часто сталкиваются жители Японии. Предполагается, что наиболее важным препятствием для достижения японцами полиглотии является время. По этой причине приводится обзор приблизительных сроков, необходимых для изучения различных языков элитной группой лиц, получивших образование в Институте зарубежной службы Государственного департамента США. Исходя из этого, выдвигаются предположения о том, чего можно было бы ожидать от аналогичной японской группы в японском контексте. Также рассматриваются языковая политика и языковое образование Японии. В связи с этим предпринимается краткий анализ того, почему данные факторы также могут быть причиной малочисленности полиглотов в Японии, хотя утверждается также, что малое количество полиглотов среди лиц японской национальности, проживающих в Японии, не обязательно означает, что столь же редко встречаются мультилингвы, которые считались бы полиглотами, если бы изучали знакомые им языки в других обстоятельствах и с большим самосознанием.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the research done for this article, the matter of multilingualism and polyglottery in modern Japan was addressed and the relationship between these phenomena and how they affect one another is discussed. Before discussing the matter of polyglots in Japan, it was felt to be useful to first examine what or what not a polyglot might be and how that term might differ from the word “multilingual” in the context of Japan, as we can assume that, even if the two terms cover much of the same semantic territory for a Japanese, they are not, as now generally understood, completely alike nor should the terms be considered interchangeable with one another. This matter is addressed in the section on vocabulary definitions. The second section, on factors of language relation, typology and culture, in which Japanese views on language and polyglottery are addressed, deals with the obstacles to becoming a polyglot that Japanese are often facing. It is proposed that the most important obstacle to achieving polyglottery by Japanese is imposed by time; and, for this reason, an overview of the approximate necessary timeframe to learn different languages for an elite cohort of American State Department educated individuals is provided. From this, guesstimates of what would be expected of a similar Japanese cohort in a Japanese context are given. The language policy and language education of Japan are also addressed. In connection with this, a short discussion is made as to why this might also contribute to the scarcity of polyglots in Japan, though it is also maintained that a scarcity of polyglots among people of Japanese ethnicity living in Japan does not necessarily mean that there is an equal level of scarcity of multilinguals, who, if they had learned their languages in different circumstances with more self-awareness, would be considered as polyglots.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>полиглот</kwd><kwd>полиглотия</kwd><kwd>мультилингв</kwd><kwd>мультилингвизм</kwd><kwd>языковое образование</kwd><kwd>языковая политика</kwd><kwd>Япония</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>polyglot</kwd><kwd>polyglottery</kwd><kwd>multilingual</kwd><kwd>multilingualism</kwd><kwd>language education</kwd><kwd>language policy</kwd><kwd>Japan</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The author is indebted to Dr Hikaru Kitabayashi for his assistance.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Foreign Language Training. 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