Shumytska G. Language Situation in Transcarpathia in the time of 1991–2020: Regional Dimension of Language Policy.

The thesis is devoted to tracking the linguistic and political tendencies in Transcarpathia during 1991 – 2020, in the light of the all-Ukrainian background. The study has analyzed the main Ukrainian legislative initiatives in the field of language policy with the emphasis on the legal norms governing the usage of state and other languages (including those of national minorities) in Ukraine, which is especially important from a regional perspective; the concept of analysis of the regional dimension of language policy in Transcarpathia in the all-Ukrainian socio-political background has been proposed; the role of mass media, in particular the Internet media linguistic space, has been outlined in the formation of the regional language and political situation; a number of archival sources on the language issue in Transcarpathia were introduced into scientific circulation after 1991; for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the results of the external independent testing within 2017–2019 period as an indicator of language competence of the external testing participants was conducted; the author analyzed and summarized the results of a study of the perception of educational language innovations in the region through the surveys of different categories of respondents during 2018; the monitoring of experimental experience of introduction of the elements of multilingual education in educational institutions of Ukraine, including Transcarpathia has been carried out as well.