20 articles in this issue
Pawel Levchuk,Svitozara Bihunova,Iryna Vorobiova
An Evaluation of the Power of Polish Language by Ukrainian Modern Language StudentsThe article analyses the attitude of Ukrainian modern language students towards the Polish language. The research was conducted among students of Rivne State University of ... see more
Tetiana Monakhova,Olga Tuluzakova
Hate Speech in Ukrainian Media DiscourseThe article deals with the problem of hate speech in the legal, cognitive, and linguistic fields and presents an analysis of the different views and interpretations of this problem in academia. The terms “hate speec... see more
Pawel Levchuk,Olena Belyavska,Yuliia Vaseiko
The Communicative Value of the Polish Language Among Students in Northwestern UkraineThe dynamic development of teaching Polish as a foreign language, together with the official certification of this language knowledge, leads to the necessity in examinati... see more
Liudmyla Pidkuimukha
The Influence of Language Behaviour on the Identity Formation of the Ukrainian MilitaryThis article aims to highlight the analysis of language behaviour and language attitude in the military environment. The data included in this research was taken from t... see more
Svitlana Sokolova
The Problem of Choosing the Language of Communication: Ukrainian RealitiesThe article analyses the situational change in the language behaviour (code switching) of representatives from different regions of Ukraine based on the data of a statistically sign... see more
Yuri Bidnoshyia,Liudmyla Dyka
Dialects in the Current Sociolinguistic Situation in UkraineThe article attempts to consider Ukrainian dialects from a sociolinguistic perspective. In particular, the article describes the factors which influence attitudes to dialects and determine its le... see more
Halyna Matsyuk
Geopolitical Influences and Language Contacts of the Ukrainian Speech Community of the Chelm and Podlachia Regions in the Kingdom of Poland (1815–1912)This paper explores language contacts, unrecorded in Ukrainian-language texts, which occurred during a p... see more
Kamelia Marta Penkowska
The Linguistic Diversity of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan. The Judeo–Tat Language in the Regional Linguistic ContextMountain Jews are one of the many ethnic groups that currently inhabit Azerbaijan. The largest centres of this community are the cities... see more
Katarzyna Dzierzawin
Polish–Arabic–English Trilingualism: A Case Study of Selected Language BiographiesThis paper utilizes linguistic biographies in order to exhibit the multilingualism of Poles living in present-day Egypt. It presents two model language biographies: a woman ... see more
Ewa Komorowska
Multilingual Expatriates in Poland and Their Attitudes Towards Learning PolishThe article presents partial results from an online survey conducted with a group of expatriates living and working in Poland. The main aim of the study was to examine the attit... see more
Gizem Karaköse
An Extraordinary Example of Media–Minority Relations: The Polish Minority in the Turkish MediaAdampol / Polonezköy is a Polish village located on the Asian side of Istanbul, founded due to the efforts of Prince Adam Czartoryski in the nineteenth century. ... see more
Helena Krasowska
Polish–Romanian Bilingualism: An Individual and Social ProcessThe aim of this article is to present issues pertaining to Polish–Romanian bilingualism, based on the example of two speakers who can be seen as representative of both the geographical area in ... see more
Gerd Hentschel,Olesya Palinska
Restructuring in a Mesolect: A Case Study on the Basis of the Formal Variation of the Infinitive in Ukrainian–Russian SurzhykIn addition to Ukrainian and Russian, Ukraine is linguistically characterized by a Ukrainian–Russian mixed speech called Surzhyk. ... see more
Olena Weston
Interventional Strategies in the Ukrainian Dubbing of The Simpsons Movie (2007)This article analyses the interventional translation strategies employed in the Ukrainian dubbing of The Simpsons Movie (2007). Based on a parallel corpus of the Engl... see more
Fatma Yuvayapan,Ilyas Yakut
Functions of Meta-discursive Nouns: A Corpus-based Comparison of Post-graduate Genres in L1 and L2 EnglishAcademic discourse is characterized by various linguistic features that academic writers utilize to maintain cohesion, reader–writer communication, a... see more
Anna Aksenova
The Reconstruction of Metaphorical Mapping as an Instrument of the Pre-translation Analysis of PoetryAlthough it can help avoid far too literal translations of metaphorical expressions, the reconstruction of metaphorical mapping is still an unclaimed inst... see more
Oleksandr Mezhov,Nataliia Kostusiak,Maryna Navalna
The Cognitive Discourse Parameters of Directive Speech Acts in Modern UkrainianThe article presents a comprehensive multifaceted analysis of directive speech acts (based on modern media texts from the popular Ukrainian newspaper Day) taking into account t... see more
Olena Pelekhata
Basic Concepts, Problems and Developmental Trends of Modern Sociolinguistics Contained in “Sotsiolinhvistychnyi Kompendium” (The Sociolinguistic Compendium), Edited by Helena Krasowska, Oleksiy Sukhomlynov, and Petro Sygeda (Kyiv: Talkom, 2020. pp. 336)Th... see more
Liliya Morska
Anna Zielinska
Review: Gerd Hentschel, Jolanta Tambor, István Fekete: “Das Schlesische und seine Sprecher: Etablierung in der Gesellschaft, Attitüden, Vitalität der Germanismen / Slaski lekt i jego uzytkownicy: rozpowszechnienie, postawy spoleczne wobec slaszczyzny, zyw... see more