Holovatiuk  Valentyna

Holovatiuk  Valentyna

a Ph.D. in Philology, a research fellow at the Ukrainian and Foreign Folkloristics Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8845-3909

Abstract

The article is based on a review of the published works of Ukrainian folklore by the Polish scholar Mikhał Łesiów (1928–2016), who is known primarily as a Slavic studier and dialectologist. He is the author of scientific works in the history and culture of language. Studies dedicated to folklore, inter-ethnic contacts, folklore aspects of linguistic interaction on the Polish-Ukrainian borderland occupy a significant place in his scientific heritage. He is also the author of the studies representing folklore materials from the Lublin region and Podlasie. In the 1950s M. Łesiów, while collecting dialect material, has recorded casually oral literature from the inhabitants of the Podillian village of Stara Huta in Buszacki County. These people have been relocated to the territory of the Western Voivodeships of Poland to the villages of the Szczecin Voivodeship (now it is the West Pomeranian Voivodeship) in the 1945–1946. Collected factual material has been published in a number of the researcher’s studies. Cohabitation over the centuries has influenced the folklore of both ethnoi. Ukrainian oral literature has become an integral part of the spiritual culture of Poles, who have incorporated a number of systemic features of the local dialects and Ukrainian folklore into their speech. Characterizing the situation of folklore usage on the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, the scholar has concluded that the works of oral literature continue partially to function among the representatives with a conscious belonging to both Polish and Ukrainian people. These works can have Polish, Ukrainian and even mixed linguistic form. Regardless the language in which folklore texts are performed, they have become the property and common ownership of the borderland cultural space. The existence of linguistically mixed folklore texts is one of the main external distinguishing features determining the specific identity of the culture of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland. Folklore bilingualism is a consequence of borrowing, as well as the fact of two-way translation of works, where certain sentences, phrases or separate words have been preserved in the original state.

Keywords: Polish-Ukrainian borderland, Ukrainian folklore, folklore bilingualism, mutual influences.

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