Formation and Development of Ukrainian Studies in Poznan University (1991 – 2016 рр.).

Abstract

The research focuses on a sociolinguistic issue – the one of the fragments description of the history of Ukrainian studies in Poland (the end of the XXth - the beginning of the XXIst centuries), in particular the attention is concentrated on the activity of the Ukrainian Studies Department in Adam Mitskevych University in Poznan. The purpose of the research is to characterize the main stages of the development of Ukrainian studies in Poznan, to illustrate the peculiarities of its formation and modern development, to characterize the popularity of the Ukrainian language in the Polish linguistic space. It has been illustrated that the Department of Ukrainian studies in Poznan is an active centre of the spread of Ukrainian education, science and culture with a perfectly organized staff, traditions and prospective. The study is necessary to create the description of the history of Ukrainian studies in Poland, world Ukrainian studies in general, that allows to illustrate the main trends and tendencies of the dissemination of the Ukrainian language and culture in the modern world in order to describe the outer history of the Ukrainian language, the way it is learnt and used by other nationalities, that increases its prestige.