Development of scientific style of the Ukrainian literary language in late 19th - early 20th centuries

The functional variant of the literary language used for cognitive-informative purposes in the sphere of science and education is the scientific style combining sublanguages of different branches of science. The establishment process of the scientific style in different languages is under different historical conditions, which affects the intensity and nature of creating the link process with other speech styles. Genetically the scientific Ukrainian language has a long tradition. Its origins are shown in certain documents, such as contracts as the oldest examples of assembly language and legal terminology in pre-Christian Russia of the 10th century, but the rapid development of scientific speech is dated by the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. In this paper the conditions and the features of the scientific style formation of the late 19th - early 20th centuries are traced, which became the basis for the formation of the modern scientific language. It determines the relevance of the research problem. The author focuses on the role of the few academic institutions and scientific works of that period, presented in different fields of science by separate titles for the overall development of the scientific style of the studied period. There were no Ukrainian academic institutions as well as higher education establishments, which conducted teaching of the Ukrainian language, up to the 1920s except few humanities departments in the Universities of Lviv and Chernivtsy. The paper actualizes the questions of forming the Ukrainian terminology in late 19th - early 20th centuries, identifies the sources of its formation, as well as the linguistic and stylistic features of scientific papers of the period. The question of the Ukrainian scientific terminology formation was urgent in the 1860s as the research shows. The development of the scientific style of Ukrainian was affected by such factors as general state of science and scientific knowledge in Ukraine, the level of literary language development, the language practices of writers, scientists, public figures and artists who appealed to the language in their scientific, historical, economic, literary, critical, and other works. Thus, the language of science in Ukraine began to form in the 1860s. The most active period of its development occurs in the first quarter of the 20th century. The Ukrainian terminological school was founded by Ivan Franko who determined the future development of language terminological systems of Ukrainian science at the end of the 19th century. However, up to 1960s-1970s the scientific style was not specifically studied and described. Scientific terminology was studied or indicated only in the most general features of scientific language.

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