RELIGIOUS STYLE OF MODERN UKRAINIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE IN THE PAN-SLOV CONTEXT: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS AND MODERN LANDMARKS

Tetiana KOTS,
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics,
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine;
e-mail: tetyana_kots@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-9559

Heading: RELIGIOUS STYLE: HISTORY AND PRESENT
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article examines the problems of the functioning of the religious style as one of the varieties of the modern Ukrainian literary language: historical prerequisites, terminological principles, trends in the renewal of semantic and stylistic potential, changes in communicative and pragmatic features. Particular attention is paid to modern landmarks that are consonant with the global challenges of the time: the preservation of deep symbolic imagery, the pole of tradition and modernity, sacralization and desacralization, the perception of religious texts by an age audience. The Pan-Slavic context testifies to the organic development of the religious sphere of language functioning, consonant with world challenges, and national, historically, situationally and temporally conditioned principles, openness to interaction with other functional varieties enable the full realization of the stylistic potential in the sacred sphere of society and influence on the dynamics of the literary norm.
The religious sphere today is an inseparable component of the functional system of the modern Ukrainian literary language, which maintains a connection with the inseparable centuries-old history of culture and spirituality of the Slavic world, retains a deep symbolic imagery, solemn sublimity. Globalization trends of the time, changes in the value orientations of society, challenges of civilizational ruptures, openness of all styles to interaction and renewal guide linguists in developing a terminological base, provoke changes within the stylistic norm, and internal existential challenges of the day determine semantic and stylistic transformations in projections onto the modern literary language. Linguistic Ukrainian studies, taking into account pan-Slavic developments and internal tasks, forms a new scientific and cultural dimension of the religious sphere of linguistic life.
Key words: religious style, sacredness, desacralization, Church Slavonic tradition, lexical-semantic processes, literary language.

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