Hirniak S. The role of the sociolect of the intelligentsia of Eastern Galicia in the formation of the Ukrainian literary language standards (the end of the 19 th – the first half of the 20 th century).

The dissertation is an innovative integral research of the current problems of modern linguistic Ukrainian studies: social differentiation of the Ukrainian language at the end of the 19th – the first half of the 20th century, in particular formation and functioning of the sociolect of Eastern Galicia’s intelligentsia and its role in the development of the standards of the national literary language. The topicality of the theme of the proposed research is determined by the necessity to study certain socio-territorial, genre-thematic and functional-stylistic idioms of the Ukrainian language in the historical perspective for solving modern problems of the formation of its new literary pattern at the beginning of the 21st century, the creation of its new idioms to meet new cognitive and communicative needs of the Ukrainian society. The structure of the dissertation is subordinated to the achievement of its goal – modeling of the sociolect of the intelligentsia by belles-lettres, publicistic and scientific texts, dictionaries and grammar books which were published in Eastern Galicia and Naddnipryanska Ukraine (Dnieper Ukraine) and clarifying its role in the formation of the national Ukrainian language standards.