Interdisciplinary Research Project Research Articles

GRNTI 2022 Master Version. (Part 2. Updating and improving links and reference tools of the Rubricator)

The authors introduce the findings of their research on updating and improving the existing (2021) master version of the State Rubricator of Sci-tech Information (GRNTI) and preparing the master version 2022, in particular, updating and improving the Rubricator links and reference tools to these tools of GRNTI Master Version 2021. Four types of references are used to point to logical connections of subject headings supplementing the classification hierarchy fixed in the code structure of the GRNTI General Table, namely “see”, “see also”, “see cross reference”, “equivalent”, and Notes [in Russian]. The general statistics of updates and developments in all three GRNTI levels are presented in the Appendix A. Most changes are made to the “see also” reference, which evidences on the increased share of interdisciplinary scientific research in the thematic structure of the GRNTI 2022 Master Version. This level of generalization with logical grouping and concepts ordering, including polyhierarchichal connections, reflects the general trends in the modern scientific and technological knowledge. The reference tools of the GRNTI 2022 General Tables maintain distinction of aspects reflected in the subject headings with logical-semantic connections. This enables to refer documents to relevant headings when indexing.

On Unmanned Aircraft as a Security Threat

This paper represents a continuation of the ongoing research of authors who, in the framework of interdisciplinary scientific research, deals with several aspects of ensuring the safety of the Slovak Republic and the European Union in connection with aviation, aircraft, air traffic and airspace protection. In their current research, following these and constant developments in the field of innovation and introduction of new technologies in the field of aviation, the authors deal with unmanned aircraft, which are gradually used not only in the military, but are increasingly penetrating the commercial sphere of civil aviation. Due to the fact, that the unmanned aircraft market is the fastest growing market of all categories of aviation, the authors in the article provide a theoretical and terminological view of the researched issues, including a brief historical view of the development of unmanned aircraft.

О ВОПРОСАХ ФИНАНСИРОВАНИЯ НАУЧНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

Amid the increasing role of science, one of the priories of public administration is rethinking target areas of scientific funding. The concept of attracting investments into interdisciplinary scientific research is sought after in order to increase the efficiency of the funds allocated for funding. Introduction of changes in the current strategic documents of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation is aimed at developing a unified approach to interdisciplinarity support and is expected to improve the competitiveness of Russian science. The historical and systematic approaches, comparative analysis and content analysis were used in the study, as well as data from Russian Federal State Statistics Service, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Mining towns and migration: Comparing three South African cases

IntroductionThe South African economy has a long history of mining exploration. The first mining operations were recorded in 1852. Literature has expressed the need to continue exploring the implications of internal and cross-border in-migration on the labor market of destination areas. This paper investigates migration patterns in South Africa by focusing on three mining towns (Postmasburg, Rustenburg and Emalahleni) in three different provinces.MethodsThis paper utilizes survey data from primary sources to investigate the potential link between migration patterns and mining output. The surveys formed part of an interdisciplinary research project under the auspices of the Center of Development Studies (CDS) at the University of the Free State.Results and discussionPostmasburg is the only mining town that experienced recent periods of expansion. This is reflected in the significant increase in the number of migrants moving to Postmasburg during 2011 and 2012, and the shorter average length of stay of migrants in Postmasburg (7.2 years compared to 9.8 years in Emalahleni and 11.0 in Rustenburg). The results resonate with the neo-classical notion of self-interest among younger people as a motivating factor for migration. Migrants in our samples were significantly younger than the locally-born respondents and display higher levels of education. Empirical results confirm this positive return on increased education levels with a positive and highly statistically significant return to every additional year of formal education. In all three towns, the dummy variable included to represent a distinction between mineworkers and non-mineworkers was statically significant. This confirms the general perception that mineworkers in all these communities receive a premium in terms of their monthly earnings-even after controlling for different levels of education. As part of a future research agenda, the role of environmental factors as a driver of migration could also be investigated in depth in Southern Africa.

Categorizations of Trust and Distrust in the Classifications and Social Representations of Food among Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women in Spain-Applying the Cultural Domains' Pile Sort Technique.

Food is fundamental in the decision making of pregnant and breastfeeding women to care for their own health and that of their child. In this paper, we explore some common food classification systems and certain attributes assigned to these categories, represented by values of trust and distrust. This study is based on an interdisciplinary research project in which we analysed discourses and practices regarding the dietary intake of pregnant and breastfeeding women in relation to the presence of chemical substances in foods. The results presented are part of the second phase of this research where we explored the results of our analysis of the pile sort technique based on an analysis of cultural domains in order to explore the categories and semantic relations among terms regarding trust and distrust in food. This technique was applied to the 62 pregnant and breastfeeding women of Catalonia and Andalusia. These women also participated in eight focus groups that provided information and narratives enabling us to analyse the meanings of the associative subdomains obtained in the pile sorts. They classified different foods and assigned certain attributes to them according to the level of trust and mistrust, providing a social representation of food risks. The mothers expressed great concern about the quality of the food they consume and about its possible effects on their own health and on that of their child. They perceive that an adequate diet is one based on the consumption of fruits and vegetables, preferably fresh. Fish and meat generate serious concern, as their properties are considered ambivalent depending on the food's origin and mode of production. These criteria are perceived by women as relevant to their food decisions and, therefore, emic knowledge should be taken into account when developing food safety programmes and planning actions aimed at pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Maternal Stress and Pregnancy Outcomes in a Prenatal Clinic Population

A two-fold decrease in the incidence of infant low birth weight, from 20.6% to 8.3%, occurred in Africa American women enrolled from 1985 to 1988 in this interdisciplinary research project conducted in an urban prenatal clinic. Nutritional, biochemical, medical, psychosocial, lifestyle, and environmental data were collected by trained Africa American interviewers. Several instruments were administered to the mother to specify the stress construct and assess body image, the social support network, and other psychosocial variables. The reduction in the incidence of low birth weight in an urban Africa American low income population admitted to the Howard University Hospital is attributed to the mediation of maternal stress by project personnel, in effect, providing an additional support system through the caring, sensitive environment provided by the project clinical staff, who met the women at each of their clinic-scheduled appointments. Women with a positive self attitude and higher self esteem were more likely to be delivered infants at term; the number of persons in the mother's social support network was directly correlated with her infant's gestational age. Maternal serum concentrations of the antioxidant vitamins, vitamin E and ascorbic acid, and the free radical scavenger, uric acid, were significantly correlated with serum folate and blood urea nitrogen. An hypothesis of low birth weight is presented.

Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment

This paper discusses an interdisciplinary research project testing the efficiency of European Bronze Age axes through experiments with replica tools and the usewear analysis of prehistoric axe-heads from the collections of the Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). The project explores whether changes in axe-head design and hafting arrangement from early to late Bronze Age might have been motivated by a desire to improve tool efficiency. The team, comprising researchers with backgrounds in archaeology, engineering, and statistical data modelling, carried out several field and laboratory tests to address the research problem. They subsequently validated the test results through the microscopic analysis of original Bronze Age axe-heads. The data suggest that hafting technology, and especially the resilience of the haft-blade assembly, is more important than axe-head design per se in determining the efficiency and working performance of Bronze Age axes. The research provides a fresh answer to a question rooted in 19th century archaeology and charts an innovative multidisciplinary pathway for studying human technology through the ages.

Representation of an Interdisciplinary Approach for Evaluation of Precision of a Neurocognitive Screening Bundle: A Proposal

Neurocognitive disorders encompass a range of conditions characterized by cognitive impairments, presenting significant challenges to individuals, families, and healthcare systems worldwide. Traditional paper-and-pencil assessments have limitations, including restricted access, limited frequency, and subjective interpretation. This research proposal aims to address these limitations by developing a reliable digital platform, a neurocognitive screening bundle, for year-round monitoring of neurocognitive symptom domains. The proposed research project adopts an interdisciplinary approach by integrating knowledge and expertise from the fields of neurology, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science. Neurology provides clinical context and expertise in understanding neurocognitive symptom domains, ensuring that the chosen screening bundle aligns with clinical needs. Psychology contributes insights into human behavior and cognitive processes, aiding in the selection, adaptation, or development of assessments targeting specific neurocognitive functions. Additionally, psychologists contribute expertise in data analysis and interpretation, enabling the identification of meaningful patterns within the collected data. Cognitive neuroscience offers a deeper understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms associated with neurocognitive symptom domains. By identifying the neural networks, brain regions, and cognitive processes involved in specific cognitive functions, cognitive neuroscientists bridge the gap between cognitive assessment and neurobiological underpinnings, aiding in the selection and interpretation of neurocognitive measures. Computer science plays a pivotal role in developing and evaluating the digital platform for neurocognitive screening. Computer scientists leverage their expertise in software development, data analysis, and machine learning to design algorithms for data processing, ensure data security and privacy, and develop user-friendly interfaces for assessments. By integrating technical skills with knowledge from other disciplines, computer scientists enhance the accuracy, reliability, and usability of the digital platform. This interdisciplinary research project aims to provide a comprehensive, accessible, and reliable tool for year-round monitoring of neurocognitive symptom domains, surpassing the limitations of traditional assessment methods. By leveraging the expertise from neurology, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science, this study aims to advance the field and improve clinical outcomes for individuals with neurocognitive disorders. The findings of this research project have the potential to revolutionize neurocognitive assessments, leading to more effective diagnosis and monitoring of these challenging conditions.

Influence Mechanism of Structural Characteristics of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Network on College Students’ Innovation Ability

Interdisciplinary scientific research method plays a significant role in promoting technological innovation. As the principal subject in scientific research activities, college students need to improve their innovation ability using interdisciplinary knowledge resources and knowledge network. Existing researches are mostly carried out from a single perspective of knowledge network, and ignore systematical analysis for interdisciplinary multilayer network. For that reason, the influence mechanism of structural characteristics of interdisciplinary knowledge network on college students’ innovation ability is established in this article. An interdisciplinary-dependent multilayer network is built and network nodes are divided into interdisciplinary knowledge elements, scientific research theme, and discipline and specialty. Structure attribute of interdisciplinary knowledge network and relationship attribute of interdisciplinary knowledge elements are also used to calculate indicators at different knowledge dimensions, and specific indicator measurement modes are proposed. The regression model is built to explore direct influence mechanism of dynamic and static characteristics of interdisciplinary knowledge network on college students’ innovation ability. A regression model is also built to further verify the regulating effect of disciplinary knowledge’s network location attribute of college students’ specialty in influence relationship between interdisciplinary knowledge network and college students’ innovation ability. Last, corresponding analysis result is given based on experiment result.

Travelling the Metaverse: Potential Benefits and Main Challenges for Tourism Sectors and Research Applications

The paper focuses on analysing the potential benefits and challenges of the Metaverse, particularly in the field of research in the tourism and food and wine sectors. The Metaverse is part of the new generation of the internet known as web 3.0, which also includes AI, blockchain and other digital innovations. The food marketing and tourism sectors are the main fields where companies are experimenting with solutions to offer people a fully functioning immersive Metaverse experience. This paper aims to highlight the potential impact of the Metaverse on tourism sectors as well as on research activities. Open challenges concern the social acceptance, affordability, and environmental sustainability of these technologies. Research is needed on the Metaverse’s ability to reduce bias and accurately simulate real experiences, as well as on tourists’ perceptions, attitudes, and willingness to pay for mediated experiences. Another important issue is the management of sensitive data that will travel through the Metaverse. Looking forward, the Metaverse has the potential to become a valuable tool for advancing tourism research through virtual collaboration and interdisciplinary research projects.

Biophysics concept inventory survey: An assessment in biophysical undergraduate education

By developing a metric to gauge student understanding, instructors can assess student base knowledge and better understand where to direct or how to instruct students. Here we introduce a Biophysical Conceptual Inventory Survey (BCIS), a 20-question, multiple-choice survey to quantitatively measure student learning regarding biophysical concepts. The BCIS contains five different question types: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis. These questions probe the student's ability to apply the knowledge to various situations. We applied the BCIS on 32 undergraduate students over three-year cohorts of ∼10 students. Each cohort participated in a 10-week summer research experience, where each student leads their own interdisciplinary research project. Students take the BCIS twice, once right before the start of the REU (the pre-survey) and then again right at the end of the REU (the post-survey). The score from the pre-survey and post-survey are compared to determine the fraction of the maximum possible gain realized. This gain is compared against various factors of the students and REU situations. The BCIS shows no biases on gender, diversity, class ranking, or home university Carnegie classification. Further, most students showed a net gain with a mean of 0.124, with 75% showing no loss. The positive gain reflects the benefit of active learning with little to no traditional instruction. Thus, the BCIS is a robust, unbiased assessment tool for biophysical undergraduate education.

The role of digital humanities in an interdisciplinary research project

The role of digital humanities in an interdisciplinary research project

“Will You be Our Qualitative Methodologist?” Reflections on Grant Work Responsibilities

Government funders increasingly encourage interdisciplinary mixed methods research projects that include qualitative methods. For qualitative methodologists, the opportunity to collaborate on interdisciplinary research teams may come at a cost when their expertise is marginalized relative to quantitative designs. Drawing on concepts from critical pragmatism and an ethics of care, we reflect on ethical tensions in our experiences as qualitative methodologists on government funded interdisciplinary research teams. Driven by an intersubjective and justice-oriented view of knowledge development and care as interdependence, we offer our thoughts, experiences, and guidance under four orienting concepts: collaboration, education, critique, and critical reflexivity. We culminate our reflection by offering a practical and responsible way forward for qualitative methodologists who accept grant work invitations, a way that holds promise for advancing interdisciplinary, critical, and care-based action in funded research.

Ernő Tárkány Szücs's Legal Ethnographic Research and International Ethnography (1967–1994)

AbstractIn 1967, Ernő Tárkány Szücs published his article summarizing the results and tasks of European legal ethnography in the columns of Ethnologica Europeana in Paris (under the title Results and Task of Legal Ethnology in Europe). With this, he revived an important tradition of Hungarian legal ethnography: Károly Tagányi published his summary of international research history in German in 1922 (Lebende Rechtsgewohnheiten und ihre Sammlung in Ungarn. Ungarische Bibliothek. Für das Ungarische Institut an der Universität Berlin. Erste Reihe. Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger. Berlin und Leipzig). At the time of the publication of Ernő Tárkány Szücs's article, he was working as a ministerial official, but in Hungarian academic life he took a backseat. At the same time, however, he was in constant contact with several European representatives of legal folklore. As soon as he had the opportunity, Tárkány Szücs opened up to international scholarship, and became not only an active participant but also a prime mover of the international discourse on legal folk custom research. His recognition was indicated by the fact that throughout Europe, not only his studies published in various world languages but also his papers exclusively in Hungarian were often cited. Although the science policy in his country was not able to integrate the specifically interdisciplinary scientific research of Ernő Tárkány Szücs, or only haltingly, his international recognition was unquestionable all along.

Critical reflections of postgraduate researchers on a collaborative interdisciplinary research project

By employing a retrospective collaborative autoethnographic approach, this work aims to better understand how an interdisciplinary context shaped the authors’ experiences of British academia during their Ph.D research. The authors bring together their individual observations and experiences to collectively interrogate and critically reflect on their position as postgraduate researchers (PGRs) on a collaborative interdisciplinary research project. These reflections are taken as a lens through which to interrogate the contemporary British university. Pre-existing tensions within the academy are characterised as ‘asymmetries’ along dimensions of risk, disciplinary hierarchy, and knowledge. It is argued that the authors’ experience of uncertainty and precarity as junior academics stems principally from pre-existing structures within British academia, rather than the interdisciplinary environment in which they were immersed. By emphasising the role of the successfully trained doctoral candidate as an outcome itself, it is argued that indicators of success can be reframed, shifting the power asymmetry to place greater value on PGRs within the neoliberal academy. Highlighting the ambiguity of their convergent and divergent personal experiences, the authors suggest there is a need for a greater focus on the contested role of the PGR within the contemporary university system.

Money, time, or saving the world

This paper analyses valuations of ‘good’ interdisciplinary research that manifest in research planning workshops. We use ethnographic case data from an interdisciplinary research project on vertical farming to build insight on how differing registers in the valuing of ‘good’ interdisciplinary research are balanced. The vertical farming project we use as a case includes researchers from sub-disciplines of the life sciences, technology, data science, and human sciences in a Finnish university of applied science (UAS). We use thematic content analysis to identify four core registers of valuing the ‘goodness’ of research and tensions between the following registers: money, sustainability, scientific value, and academic identity. These registers largely conform to a statistical-economical regime of academic evaluation, while sustainability draws on RRI principles and the interdisciplinary emphasis on societal problem-solving. The registers are balanced mainly through temporal and conceptual compartmentalisations. Throughout three workshop encounters over the course of a six-month period, a perpetual negotiation of the different registers of valuing ‘good’ research was taking place, with attempts to avoid exclusionary choices between “money, time, or saving the world”.

Establishment, development and prospect of the Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of China

<p indent="0mm">Along with the development of natural science at current stage, interdisciplinary scientific research is an inevitable trend and destiny in pursuit of innovations in science or technologies. Much more evidence (global positioning system, internet, national security, integrated circuit, and robot technology, etc.) has proven that interdisciplinary cooperation is necessary and significant in solving important and complicated scientific problems. Thus, the United State of America (USA) built the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1958. European Union (EU) started the interdisciplinary scientific research plan of Horizon 2020 and built the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in 2008. As well, the developed countries (Germany, United Kingdom, and Nordic countries) established interdisciplinary scientific research agencies sequentially and promoted a series of interdisciplinary scientific research projects. In China, the concept of interdisciplinary scientific research was put forward by Dr. Xuesen Qian at National Interdisciplinary Conference in 1985. In 1997, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) initiated the Major Research Plan, which aims at solving the key fundamental problems in national strategy and exploring the scientific frontier in understanding the natural world with the assistance of interdisciplinary cooperation. Besides, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China also started the National Key Research and Development Program (SKRD Program) in 2015 to break through the bottleneck of science and technology. Although the concept of developing interdisciplinary science is widely accepted all over the world, interdisciplinary research is still in the initial stage. Due to the division of different disciplines formatted in past decades, the barrier and prejudices between disciplines are inveteracy, which imposes the impediment on interdisciplinary cooperation. Further, the complexity of interdisciplinary scientific research reduces the willingness of scientists, especially young scientists, to work on interdisciplinary science. Even worse, the funding mechanism that conforms to the characteristics of interdisciplinary scientific research has not been formed and is still under exploration. How identifying the characteristics of interdisciplinary research and guiding/fostering its development with funding methodology are challenging. Established in October 2020, the Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences (DIS) at NSFC has clear mission and responsibility of promoting interdisciplinary scientific research in China. Since its establishment, DIS has experienced a process of pioneering explorations in a series of aspects to create the culture for accelerating interdisciplinary cooperation, such as initiating “top-down” design of projects, summarization of scientific issues, selection of outstanding projects, and training of potential talent, etc. To encourage more scientists to get involved in interdisciplinary scientific research, this article mainly introduces the operation mechanism of DIS including its duty, organizational structure, work culture, project settings, development goals, etc. Moreover, to better elaborate the difference between DIS and other departments in NSFC, the novel attempts in funding project management are also carefully summarized, such as the innovations in the proposed project application, proposal evaluations, and project management in the past two years. At last, this article provides the outlook on developing interdisciplinary scientific research, the difficulties encountered in the operation that are difficult to solve under the existing funding mechanism, and the challenges in promoting the development of interdisciplinary science in future. We hope this article can pave the way for developing interdisciplinary science and encouraging interdisciplinary talents in China.

O výzvach Európskej únie z pohľadu vojenských operácií a misií vedených v rámci spoločnej bezpečnostnej a obrannej politiky

Since the launch of the first military and civilian operations and missions, conducted within the framework of its security and defence policy, the European Union has been trying to constantly improve its structures, mechanisms, and instruments to support stability and security in its neighbourhood and beyond, thus contributing to increasing security not only in the Union, but also in the world. The primary goal of operations and missions led by the Union is to help prevent the emergence of conflicts and crises, or if they have already arisen, to help solve them, increase the capacities of partners, and ultimately protect the Union and its citizens. Given the fact that what happens outside the borders of the Union has a direct impact on its security, the European Union today faces serious security challenges and threats. In order to protect and defend its citizens, it must deal with them and try to solve them using all available means and tools, including the military. That is also why, the authors – as part of their interdisciplinary scientific research – deal with the current challenges of the Union, primarily from the point of view of EU operations and missions conducted within the framework of the Common Security and Defence Policy.

Smoke, Air, Fire, Energy (SAFE) in Rural California: Critical Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

This article provides a synthesis of the interconnected problems of tenuous energy access, wildfires, and exposures to high air pollution in Indigenous communities in rural California through the lens of ongoing collaborative research being carried out by researchers at Cal Poly Humboldt, Schatz Energy Research Center, Karuk Department of Natural Resources, and the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe. The collaboration is funded by the Strategic Growth Council of the state of California, and we hope is the beginning of a longer term relationship between all partners. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers drawing on energy engineering, air pollution science, and qualitative social sciences to better understand the intersecting challenges of expanding clean energy access, and building climate resilience in Tribal communities in rural California in the context of the multiple challenges of climate change, increasing risk of dangerous wildfires, and high exposures to air pollution. Individuals and communities need to make decisions about energy and air quality infrastructure with implications for public health, climate change, energy resilience, and Tribal sovereignty. This article will reflect on the joys, challenges, ethical questions, and epistemological constraints involved with academic researchers working on interdisciplinary research projects across disciplines, and in partnership with Tribal nations. Grounded in the reflections and experience of an ongoing project, this article sheds light on the challenges and unique opportunities of conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research in close engagement with communities, and also reflects on the structural constraints posed within current institutional structures.

ПОЛІЛОГ ЯК ОСНОВА ЕПІСТОЛЯРНОГО ЖАНРУ В ПОЛЕМІЧНІЙ ЛІТЕРАТУРІ ПІСЛЯ БЕРЕСТЕЙСЬКОЇ УНІЇ: УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ТА ПОЛЬСЬКИЙ КОНТЕКСТИ

The article examines the polylogue as the basis of Polish-language discourse within the framework of the inter-confessional polemic after the Union of Brest, to which both Polish and Ukrainian writers of the Baroque era joined. Attention is paid to the creative works of Hipacy Pociej, Kliryk from Ostrog, and prince Konstantin from Ostrog, whose correspondence became a vivid example of polemical epistolary in the form of a polylogue. Their role in the formation of the concept of the Volyn text is emphasized. Polemical polylogues after the Union of Brest took place according to two discussion models. The first of them grew out of a dialogue between two authors, to which other participants in the dispute joined in turn. The second model, less common, immediately assumed the presence of more than two parties. In the case of the union controversy, there were usually three such participants - representatives of the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Thus, in the apologetic “triangle” of Wojna-Orański, Skarga, and Sakowicz, there are three worldview systems that independently develop in a polemical direction. It is worth noting that the representatives of the Ukrainian nation used the Polish language as a polemic tool. Example of such correspondence may be the discussion between Prince Konstanty Ostrogski and Hipacy Pociej, which was later continued by the Cleric of Ostrog. A letter in Baroque times was primarily a type of literary work created in the conditions of a social context. The letters were not written for personal communication, but for public discussion. That is why in the studied material we trace the purposeful use of the Polish language as a tool of public speech. Therefore, in view of this, we are dealing with a whole series of polemical letters, whose structure can be described as an apologetic chain of theses and antitheses, generally characteristic of a theological polemical treatise. At the same time, correspondence polylogues resemble a chain of closely connected apologies. The letters could have been created initially with personal intentions, or they could have been written immediately to show off as an exclusively literary work. The genre characteristics of the polylogue as a cycle of letters are reduced to citations of famous authors, Church fathers, the Holy Scriptures and references to the thesis of the opponent. They are also an expression of an emotional, and therefore subjective and individual writing style, by which the authorship of a particular letter can be determined. The definition of the Volyn text in the polemical epistolary polylogue arises from the fact of the place of origin or residence of the authors who are involved in the conversation. Thus, the place of stay for Hypacy Pociej was Volodymyr, where he performed the functions of a bishop. Instead, his opponents came from Ostrog, which belonged to historical Volyn. These loci influenced the peculiarities of correspondence vocabulary, toponymic attributes and address certificates. The fact of the absence of a complex of provincialism in the local Volyn cities, from which the polemical voices of ancient writers rang out, is telling. Religious persons also joined the correspondence, especially from the higher echelons of the church hierarchy, who initially were not associated with the writing craft, but became writers involuntarily. In the future, polemical baroque correspondence written in Polish on the Ukrainian-Polish border should be given more attention in interdisciplinary scientific research.