Author ORCID Identifier
Kostiantyn Kampen: ORCID: 0000-0003-1315-9830
Svitlana Romanchuk: ORCID: 0000-0002-5737-2951
Daniil Palij: ORCID: 0000-0001-9988-4544
Abstract
The scientific work presents the practical possibilities of stylistics in the development of the confessional variety of the Ukrainian language, covering its diachronic and synchronic planes of study. The authors raise the question of the classification of the confessional style, outline its problems, and to demonstrate the patterns of speech that highlight the characteristic features of this stylistic variety. The areas of use, the dynamics of development, the limits of influence, and the popularity of the style are considered; lexico-stylistic units are listed as an illustrative example. The temporal dimension encompassed by the style begins during paganism in the Ukrainian lands and continues into the present time. Accordingly, the style is recognized as the most ancient type of language known to linguistics. The stylistic system of the Ukrainian language includes seven styles: colloquial/everyday, formal official business, journalistic, artistic, scientific, epistolary, and confessional. The last became the object of thorough research only since the independence of Ukraine. It is worth remembering, however, the legacy of Vasyl Nimchuk, who noted the lexico-semantic and stylistic parameters of the Ukrainian language at the turn of the 17th century through the prism of his confessionalism.1 In connection with the freedoms of speech and religion proclaimed in Article 35 of the Constitution of Ukraine, every citizen can visit and profess any denomination, solidifying the rights of every Ukrainian to faith, thereby consolidating the position of the sacred style of the Ukrainian language and providing opportunities for its free use. The sublimity of the style creates a certain sacred harmony which is not possessed by any other known style of the Ukrainian language. It is noticed that the sacred language laid the foundation for the flourishing of both its own and other varieties of Ukrainian speech, setting the tone for the formation of other styles.
Recommended Citation
Kampen, Kostiantyn; Romanchuk, Svitlana; and Palij, Daniil
(2022)
"Confessional Style of the Ukrainian Language,"
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 42
:
Iss.
2
, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/2693-2148.2331
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol42/iss2/11