The modern Ukrainian academic linguistic stylistics: A strategy of the integrative development

Abstract

This article offers an analytical review of the Department of Stylistics, Culture of Language, and Sociolinguistics’ study outcomes in 1991—2021. It focuses on the publications with the expanded linguo-stylistic analysis and the developing of the terminological system of Ukrainian stylistics. The authors reinterpret a term style and concept of language culture and outline the contribution to the development of structural stylistics, i.e., linguistic text analysis, and interpretive stylistics from the Department staff also naming major studies which determined the connection of linguistic stylistics with the history of Standard Ukrainian and establishing the significant role of historical stylistics. Being determined by the view of language as a system of signs the structural approach in linguistic stylistics dominated at early stages the Ukrainian stylistics formation. The paper advances a new idea regarding the fluidity of the modern system of functional styles and the need to revise and restructure their socially significant hierarchy with respect to the linguo-cultural and communicative-pragmatic reinterpretation of integrative linguo-stylistics. The interdisciplinary aspects of functional-stylistic and genre-stylistic researches are the following: linguoculturology, linguofolkloristics, linguosophy, linguopersonology, linguoconflictology, discourseology, media stylistics, legal linguistics, psycholinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and linguistic expertise. The conclusion evaluates the digital methods to process texts in Standard Ukrainian and the need to create lexicographic sources of stylistic terminology and expand the aspects of stylistic lexicography. Keywords: linguo-stylistics, style, culture of language, norm, interdisciplinarity, research method, integrative linguo-stylistics