Sociolinguistic dimensions of dialect space of Ukraine and Poland

Authors

  • Nataliia Medynska

    Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities
  • Svitlana Grytsenko

    Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Tetiana Tyshchenko

    Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University
  • Lesya Kyslyak

    Ivano-Frankivsk Educational and Scientific Law Institute of the National University «Odesa Law Academy»
  • Borys Kovalenko

    Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59400/fls.v5i1.1523

Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyse the use of lexical, grammatical and morphological dialectisms-Polonisms in speech by the inhabitants of Nadsanie in various spheres of life (family, household, business, and education). The research involved the following general scientific and sociolinguistic methods: diagnostic (questionnaire), discursive, and intentional methods; the statistical method—mathematical processing of data obtained during the experiment; and the descriptive method—description and recording of the results. The following results were found through the application of the said methods for the analysis of respondents’ answers. Hence, the use of lexical, grammatical and morphological dialects tends to gradually decrease in older and middle age groups, the actual disappearance among young people. Given the socio-historical situation of modern Ukraine, sociolinguistic study of dialectisms-Polonisms showed how the independence of their own state contributes to the development of their own ethnographic dialectisms, as well as the gradual decline and disappearance of other languages. Further research involves the study of dialectisms-Polonisms in other territories of Western Ukraine and the areas which are close to the Polish border. The studies of other groups of dialectisms-Polonisms (in particular, phonetic and syntactic) and the elements of dialectisms-Ukrainianisms in the Polish language are also promising.

Keywords:

sociolinguistics, dialectisms-Polonisms, lexical dialectisms, survey, Nadsansky dialect

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