Nikolaienko V.
PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations, Information and Regional Studies of the Faculty of International Relations of the National Aviation University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

Nikolaienko S.
teacher of the Chair of Foreign Languages of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

Derkach N.
teacher of the Chair of Foreign Languages of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract
In sociolinguistic and sociological studies of the process of language interference, due to which mixed languages (pidgins and creoles) are formed, the impact of this process on the cognitive sphere in the minds of people who themselves are lower on the social ladder in terms of their social status and whose language also falls under the low-status category of is overlooked by researches. Under such conditions, the higher-status lexifier language gradually takes over the function of the language, which can be called a cognifyer, that is, the native language, the semantic (meaningful) load of which determines both the way of everyday thinking and the way of everyday behavior. Not only does not the process of depiginization and subsequent decreolization solve the problem, but also exacerbates it, as language borrowings in such conditions are carried out not in view of the need for communication, but in view of the need to raise social status.

Keywords: pidginization/depidginization, creolization/decreolization, language interference, lexifier language, cognifyer language, source language, target language.