Research Areas
The main directions of research at the Faculty of Philology: Ukrainian language; Ukrainian as a foreign language; Ukrainian literature; Ivan Franko Studies; medieval literature studies; theory of literature; comparative literature studies; folklore studies; general linguistics; applied linguistics; sociolinguistics; comparative-historical, typological linguistics; Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech); literature of Slavic peoples; oriental languages (Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese); translation studies.
Research and teaching staff of the departments in 2021-2022 worked on the following research topics:
1) Synchrony and diachrony of the lexical and grammatical system of the Ukrainian language
(supervisor – Z. Kupchynska , Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
2) Ukrainian language as a code of the nation: culturology, history, language didactics
(supervisor – I. Kochan, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
3) Historiosophical and metaphysical visions of Ukrainian literature of the end of twenty century (90s) and the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the European context
(supervisor – T. Saliga, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
4) Ukrainian continental and diasporic literature: texts and contexts
(supervisor – M. Hnatiuk, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.)
5) Modern trends in the development of folklore: traditions and innovation
(supervisor – V. Ivashkiv, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
6) Multilingual texts and discourses in socio-communicative, cognitive and linguistic-statistical dimensions
(supervisor – F. Batsevich, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
7) Language in society: semantics, syntactics, pragmatics
(supervisor – G. Matsyuk, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
8) Linguistic, literary, translation paradigms of modern Slavic studies: problems and prospects
(supervisor – A. Tatarenko, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
9) Modern Polish language and literature in development and contacts
(supervisor – H. Stelmakh, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).
10) Actual problems of modern oriental studies
(supervisor – H. Stelmakh, Ph.D. in philology, Prof.).