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THE PHENOMENON OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE LATINIZATION AS A FACTOR IN THE BROADENING OF THE METALANGUAGE OF LINGUISTICS

Yelyzaveta Peresada

Information about the author:  PhD student, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University

e-mail: peresadaliza42@gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2023-7-18

Title: THE PHENOMENON OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE LATINIZATION AS A FACTOR IN THE BROADENING OF THE METALANGUAGE OF LINGUISTICS

Rubric: TERMINOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC. TERMINOGRAPHY AND PRACTICE OF COMPILING BRANCH DICTIONARIES

Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article is devoted to the specifics of the formation of the metalanguage of graphemics as an actual scientific direction of  modern linguistics. The emergence of graphemics as a separate scientific field has not led to the consolidation of a single term in the  scientific discourse to denote the science of writing and the graphic level of language. In addition, there is no established graphemics  terminology. The article proposes to define the term field of linguistics, which represents the established terms, and discusses the  controversial issues related to the formation of the microterm field associated with the phenomenon of Latinization, since language reflects  all political, psychological, and cultural changes, including those motivated by the peculiarities of its graphic representation. In the Ukrainian linguistic culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, there was a competition between two graphic systems: the traditional Cyrillic and the Latin  alphabets. This competition («alphabet wars») is also actualized in the modern linguistic space of the early 21st century, which is represented  by attempts to Latinize the Ukrainian language space. The process of Latinization has led to the emergence of new terms to  denote these  attempts as projects (variants) of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet. In Ukrainian graphemics, such occasional terms as  yirechekivka, lahodivka,  luchukivka, melnykivka, Ukrainian abecedary, and Ukrainian gaietyka have emerged. In addition, we trace the  emergence of nonce terms  that are common in Ukrainian scientific discourse. Among them, we find synonymous connections: alphabet war  and alphabet blizzard.  Certain aspects of the alphabet war in Galicia also contributed to the emergence of such terms as alphabet battles,  alphabet plague, alphabet  discussion, alphabet history, alphabet coup, alphabet question, and alphabet disputes. The task of summarizing  information on this issue in  terms of diachrony and synchrony is being actualized. The problem under consideration has prospects, since the  terminology system of  grapgemics requires systematization and clear lexicalization, creation of a dictionary of graphemics terms.

Keywords: metalanguage, graphemic, Latinization, term, microtermfield, nonce term.

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