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| Edition: | 1 |
| Place and year of publication: | Warszawa 2024 |
| Publication language: | polski , ukraiński |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 978-83-235-6701-1 |
| EAN: | 9788323567011 |
| Number of page: | 504 |
| Method of publication: | PDF |
| Size of the file: | 6,12 MB |
| Publication type: | Praca naukowa , Open access |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323567011 |
In the Beginning Was the Word… From Spoken Standard to Literary Norm (An Outline of the Origin of the Ukrainian Literary Language)
The war waged today by Russia against Ukraine is seen by the public opinion as a political struggle over land or resources. What is overlooked is its crucial cultural background.
Apart from centuries of conquering and colonising neighbouring territories, the Russians have also annexed for their political goals – namely, extending back the history of their state – a vital part of Ukrainian cultural heritage: the earliest manuscripts penned by Ruthenians/Ukrainians in Kyiv, Volhynia and Halych Land in 11th–14th centuries. Back in the 19th century, these texts, written in Church Slavonic, were classified as “Old Russian” – a manifestation of the common tradition of a “triune” nation.
Decolonising Slavic studies in this regard is a rather difficult task: for the same imperial reasons, three subsequent Russian regimes – tsarist, soviet, and Putinian – have spoken in one voices on this matter.
Following this annexation of the monuments of Ukrainian literary culture to the Russian heritage, and lacking earliest literary tradition of their own, today’s anthologies of earliest Russian literature are based on Ukrainian texts. From a cultural point of view, the present war is fought to keep things this way.
The texts analysed by a Polish-Ukrainian research team, including the earliest ones, dating from the 11th century, record the features of the Ukrainian language which were formed in the pre-literacy period and then provided the basis for the literary norm.
The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/deed.en).
Keywords: liteary language, linguistic norm, written source, east Slavic languages, redactions of Church Slavonic, language origin, Ukrainian language.
The war waged today by Russia against Ukraine is seen by the public opinion as a political struggle over land or resources. What is overlooked is its crucial cultural background.
Apart from centuries of conquering and colonising neighbouring territories, the Russians have also annexed for their political goals – namely, extending back the history of their state – a vital part of Ukrainian cultural heritage: the earliest manuscripts penned by Ruthenians/Ukrainians in Kyiv, Volhynia and Halych Land in 11th–14th centuries. Back in the 19th century, these texts, written in Church Slavonic, were classified as “Old Russian” – a manifestation of the common tradition of a “triune” nation.
Decolonising Slavic studies in this regard is a rather difficult task: for the same imperial reasons, three subsequent Russian regimes – tsarist, soviet, and Putinian – have spoken in one voices on this matter.
Following this annexation of the monuments of Ukrainian literary culture to the Russian heritage, and lacking earliest literary tradition of their own, today’s anthologies of earliest Russian literature are based on Ukrainian texts. From a cultural point of view, the present war is fought to keep things this way.
The texts analysed by a Polish-Ukrainian research team, including the earliest ones, dating from the 11th century, record the features of the Ukrainian language which were formed in the pre-literacy period and then provided the basis for the literary norm.
The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/deed.en).
Keywords: liteary language, linguistic norm, written source, east Slavic languages, redactions of Church Slavonic, language origin, Ukrainian language.
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