THE LINGUAPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE MODERN TRANSCARPATHIA: RECEPTION OF THE REGIONAL CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS
Authors: STEPANENKO Mykola 
Published: July 2024

The strategic goal of the scientific studies of H. Shumytska “Through the Dialog to Mutual Understanding in the Multilingual Space: Regional Reception of Language Innovations in the Educational Sphere” and “The Language Situation in the Transcarpathia in 1991–2020: The Regional Dimension of Language Policy” is the observation of language policy trends in the Transcarpathia in 1991–2020, taking into account the Ukrainian context, the definition of the main ways of retaining the Ukrainian language in interaction with the languages of national minorities. The purpose of the proposed article is to systemically prepare this scientific discourse, to distinguish the priority principles of the linguistic and socio-linguistic author&apos;s concept with the theoretical provisions declared in it concerning the terminology-concept paradigm, and practical recommendations addressed to such spheres of social life as education, culture, politics, legal sphere. The priority provisions should include the skillfully structured model of language planning and language construction in the border area with compact residence of an ethnos, as well as the model of introduction of multilingual education with a clearly defined place of the Ukrainian language as the state language, as a result of this process – the ways of forming the harmonic intellectual and cultural polyphony in the society. The special attention should be assigned to the conceptual principles on the policy of strategic multilingualism, official monolingualism and bilingualism (these are specific models of language policy: assimilatory, differential, multicultural), and the regional all-Ukrainian models of multilingual education determined by causal connections and their influence on the state mechanisms. The information about the main Ukrainian legislative initiatives in the field of language policy logically complements this report focusing on those legal norms regulating the application of state and other languages (in particular, national minority languages) in Ukraine. Among the original and creative scientific studies by H. Shumytska is a multi- purpose analysis of the role of mass media in the implementation of state language policy and coverage of the language political situation on the territory of Ukraine, a description of the language political orientation of modern Transcarpathian mass media, in particular new sites as an indicator of the language situation in Ukraine. Finally, the depth of the scientific discourse under consideration defines the problem of the Rusyn orientation of the current Transcarpathia region, it is represented by sociolinguistic and political narratives about the “Rysyn movement” in the Transcarpathia, “Rusyn language” and attempts to codify and legitimize it, the nationality of “the Rusyn” and the attempts to legitimize this ethnic identity, “Rysyn studies” as an anti-Ukrainian technology, disturbing outlines of the “Hungarian”, “Romanian”, and “Rusyn questions”. The general conclusion about the reception is as follows: the scientific works of H. Shumytska is rich with ideas and results that open the prospects for the study of the political and political situation in Ukraine in general, as well as in some of its political and, consequently, in the multilingual regions.