Linguistic Picture of the World of Western Ukrainian Diaspora Poetry: Parameters of Similarity and Differences with the National Literary and Written Tradition

Halyna Siuta; Zoriana Vysotska; Iryna Syrko; Inna Yurova

doi:10.63931/ijchr.v7iSI1.383

Authors

Halyna Siuta Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-1644
Zoriana Vysotska Оdesa Military Academy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8588-4009
Iryna Syrko Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Drohobych, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-425X
Inna Yurova The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Kyiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6053-7609

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63931/ijchr.v7iSI1.383

Keywords:

artistic style, language of diasporic poetry, linguistic and literary practice, national linguistic and cultural experience, stylistic norm, linguistic picture of the world, image, metaphor, digitalization

Abstract

The Ukrainian diaspora has played an important role in supporting Ukrainian culture, especially literature. Based on the method of bibliographical content analysis, interpretation and generalization, the article traces the specifics of the linguistic picture of the world, verbalized in Western Ukrainian diasporic poetry, characterizes the most indicative parameters of convergence and differences with the national literary and written tradition. The main material of the study is the poetic language creation of the authors of the New York group. It is defined as an important fragment of the national artistic style. The polyphonic interaction of the traditional and the new (modern) is demonstrated on the example of the images of ‘man”, “language”, and “earth”. It is concluded that their development in the analyzed texts reflects the variability of the national linguistic picture of the world in accordance with the temporal and spatial dimensions of literary and written practice. It is proven that the modernization of poetic language in the Western diaspora occurs taking into account the national linguistic and cultural experience. This trend in the texts is confirmed by folk poetic and literary codes, figurative model's characteristic of folklore and mainland creativity, intertextual phenomena, etc. It is stated that the aesthetic and stylistic value of diasporic poetic expression is projected onto the structure of the national artistic language, onto the dynamics of stylistic and idiostylistic norms.

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