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LESIA UKRAINKA AS A LINGUIST-TERMINOLOGIST (devoted to the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth)

Tetyana Kosmeda

Information about the author: PhD in Linguistics, professor (Ukraine), titled professor (Poland), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland)

e-mail: tkosmeda@gmail.com

Title: LESIA UKRAINKA AS A LINGUIST-TERMINOLOGIST (devoted to the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth)

Rubric: TERM AND LANGUAGE PRACTICE. PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE PERSONALITY

Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: In this scientific investigation we set the task to trace how Lesya Ukrainka represents the intellectualism of the Ukrainian language through the prism of  her linguistic consciousness, due to her word formation, verbalizing her own linguosophy as that one which belongs to a linguist-terminologist, master of the word,  Ukrainian elitist linguistic personality, which is manifested in the epistolary discourse of the poet. It is about the writer’s reasoning about the development of the  Ukrainian language, description of its ontology, as well as her views on the development of Ukrainian terminology, relevant practical work on modeling terms,
including neologisms, etc. Lesya Ukrainka used various techniques of creating terms: (1) she tried to make the term correspond to the spirit of the Ukrainian  language; (2) knowing the foreign languages well, the writer actively used foreign terms, using them in Latin graphics and transforming them into Cyrillic, tracing,  trying to make them look Ukrainian, in particular, providing Ukrainian suffixes and endings; (3) she created terms-neologisms to describe the concepts that she  introduced; (4) she intensified borrowed prefixoids, which today have become productive and regular; (5) she worked on modeling femininitives; (6) she represented  figurative terms of the metaphorical type, as well as terms based on the phenomenon of precedent (actualization of proper precedent names, statements  of famous people, delineation of precedent situations, etc.). Lesya Ukrainka considered herself a linguist to some extent, so she reflected on linguistic  problems, the status of the Ukrainian language, its development, stylistics, the peculiarities of the functioning of the Ukrainian language in different regions of  Ukraine, the nature of the influence of Russian and Polish. However, we see Lesya Ukrainka’s merit first of all in the fact that she did not passively study the state  and peculiarities of the Ukrainian language, but even in her letters to relatives and friends she left valuable observations, arguments, persistently and convincingly  encouraged consistent and active language patriotism.

Keywords: Ukrainian language, epistolary heritage, term, borrowing, neologism, language patriotism.

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