Linguistic-verbal resources for extending the Ukrainianness
Authors: Furman Anatolii 
Published: December 2024

The study is dedicated to a complex explanation of the problematics of linguistic-verbal resources of Ukrainianness as something that was embedded for centuries, something that is related to a mentality, something socially unique, something psychospiritually diverse in its authenticity and elegance, global in its scale, something that is an attributive factor of the existence of the Ukrainianness universe both within the frames of a states border of Ukraine and beyond its borderlines, in the spacetime of the other nations of the world. The authors concept, by implementing the archetypical normative of the quaternity and the cognitive capabilities and tools in the vita-cultural methodology, substantiates and epistemologically elaborates on four logical-semantic modules (i.e., on the separate functional nodes of reflexive cognitive activity) as fundamental methods for a sequential solving the problem of as broad as possible utilizing the potential of Ukrainian language in the modern highly complex realities of Ukrainian society. The first step in this spiral of conscious clarification of the Ukrainianness capabilities is the situational understanding of the Ukrainian language as the existence-freedom of the subjectified Ukrainian spirit that remains true only by its inherent essence that comes from each Ukrainian, from a group, from a community, and from the nation as a whole. It has been proven that the native language in the phenomenally boundless spaces of internal and external verbality is a life-giving center of self-preservation and development of the titular nation and, at the same time, the spiritual heart of socially boundless Ukrainianness, that in the existential unison organize and consolidate Ukrainian society through four main channels of consciousness formation – through life, personality, actions, culture – and most importantly, relying on the resources and capabilities of the original psycho-culture of the Ukrainian mentality, in its sub-ethnic diversity and stable spiritual organization, contradictory formations of strength and weakness, good and evil, love and hate, wisdom and limitation, the yearning for the sacred, eternal and the filling a real life with the everyday and mundane at the same time. The second step is a multifaceted motivated justification of the native language as the ultimate room of the Ukrainian person and, at the same time as the sacred resource of the nation. It was substantiated that in understanding the essence and content of being, language plays the role of a home, a dwelling, a family temple, where the truth is ought to source in its thought-action embodiment – in a living word, speech, and communication, and where existential thought, in its actual meaning, gives the floor to this ineffable meaning and further fills the space of being-ness in a linguistic way, affirming the eventfulness of truth and nurturing the spheric flow of the functionalities of consciousness. In addition, the very powerful linguistic-verbal resource of modern Ukrainianness is factually outlined in several aspects: a) in the numerous evolutionary products of Ukrainians cognitive activities, which testify to the cultural maturity and complex coloring of their native language; b) in the four-dimensional megaspace of accumulating valuable knowledge about language and speech in the experience of an extraordinary Ukrainian soul and a free ethno-national spirit, encompassing phonetic (written) image, melodics, rhythmics and meaning (sense); c) in the innovative practice of modular-developmental learning, which harmoniously combines four strategies for managing the educational process of secondary schools and higher education institutions (scientific, research, self-realization, vita-cultural) when teaching academic subjects/disciplines, including the Ukrainian language, ensuring intensive Ukrainization of consciousness and psychocultural growth of secondary and higher education students. The third step of cognitive reflective action reveals the powerful heuristic potential and unique sociocultural possibilities of the primary linguo-intellectual resource of Ukrainianness, which is the conceptual and categorical system (primarily an array of verbal means) of conscious and responsible coexistence of Ukrainians in their voluntary obligation of all for one and one for all. Within this interpretative perspective eight stages of categorical genesis are outlined and grouped of four, (word, name, term, concept; categories of a separate science, general scientific category, philosophical categories, categories of culture or worldview universals) and a number methodological generalizations regarding the best use of these means for the comprehensive dissemination of Ukrainianness were made by the author; in particular, the definition and purpose of the notion are given, the conditions for its transformation into a concept and the law of the notions equivalence is formulated, along with the author’s formula of the category being recorded (both mathematically and textually), and the architectonics, functions, rules, and features of operating with any epistemologically mature category being described. The fourth step lies in concluding reflection on the covital-existential resources of the modern Ukrainian language, which today, as well as throughout half a millennium of historical trials, are resisting linguicide, i.e. language extermination, which is now confirmed by dramatic and tragic events on the fields of both the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war and the language war. It was reasoned that the existential mission of the native language is fundamental, irreplaceable, and sacred, as confirmed by Biblical verses, faithful dignitaries of the Ukrainian nation, the categorical matrix of the Ukrainian mentality, and the ethnosocial and cultural-creative purpose of the national idea. Among other things, it is summarized that the written image constitutes the body of the native word, its sound design is the mental state of the actual or potential speaker, the melodics and rhythmics of utterances constitute the soul of speech, and semantics are indeed the very luminous spirit of the Ukrainian language. At the very end, it is concluded that the Ukrainian language appears in four dimensions of the nation’s existence, namely as: 1) the identifier of Ukrainianness, that is, as the only essential, fundamental, attributive sign of a Ukrainian; 2) the border of the nation is mental, toponymic, socio-cultural, psycho-spiritual; 3) the power-dominance of Ukrainians on their sacred land, not pleasing any empires, unions, all kinds of ochlocracies and necrophiliac leaders to their detriment; 4) the most powerful weapon in the language war, which must be won at all costs, and the most important conscious-spiritual weapon in the current Russian-Ukrainian war, in which we must achieve our well-deserved existential victory.