Abstract

The paper revises the cultural sustainability concept using as a basis the theory of social space by Henri Lefebvre. The paper is based on the assumption that analysing motivations for foreign language learning could help to understand the changes of social space. Using qualitative in-depth interviews as the empirical basis, the analysis found four different individual linguistic-spatial strategies: spatial production based on unchanging morphologies; spatial production based on historical and power connotations; spatial production based on connotations of consumerism and spatial production based on cultural meanings. According to data, the last strategy supports the constitution of sustainable social space most positively.