UKRAINIAN-LANGUAGE SPACE IN KRYVYI RIH CITY AND (NON)COMPLIANCE WITH LANGUAGE RIGHTS

Abstract

The article is generalized the results of sociolinguistic researche (questionnaire) of the dynamic of the language situation in Kryvyi Rih; traced changes in the evaluation of the language environment in the period of 2019–2021. The aim of the research is to determine how important it is to the residents of Kryvyi Rih to choose the language of communication, determine, which language dominates in communication in the educational and private surroundings, and based on the results, analyze the dynamic of the language situation in Kryvyi Rih. Among the tasks that we solved were: to identify the assessment of the Ukrainian language by the speakers of another languages and primordial native speakers in terms of communication suitability, aesthetics, prestige, as well as to determine the degree of favor of the language group to the native language. In order to achieve this goal, we used the historical-genetic method; among the empirical methods questionnaires and observations were chosen; processing and generalization of the obtained dictates of the sociolinguistic survey was carried out by the methods of mathematical statistic. The answers of the respondents are analyzed, which witness that in the city of Kryvyi Rih there is a long-standing conflict between two languages – Ukrainian and Russian. Respondents consider Ukrainian their native language, study it and use it in the educational process, speak it better than Russian or any foreign language, but in private life they more often choose Russian or surzhik. In relation to the language of communication of employees from different fields with consumers of their service, the distension of the spheres of using the Ukrainian language was observed. The positive dynamic of the interaction of languages in benefit of the state in the social life of the people of Ukraine allows us to conclude that language policy is rational. We see the practical meaning of our research in the fact that its result can be used in other regional siciolinguistic research. We consider the implementation of the sociolinguistic research to be promising, the respondents of which will be representatives of certain socio-, age or professional groups which will contribute to the accumulation of empirical dictates on the interaction of language and society, the development of effective measures to collect socio-cultural deformations of the language surroundings.