«Украинская грамматика» за редакцією В. М. Русанівського як науково-культурний проєкт

The paper investigates Ukrainskaia grammatika (Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 1986), a collective monograph edited by NANU Member V.M. Rusanivskyi and coauthored, alongside him, by a group of leading Ukrainian linguists (M. A. Zhovtobryukh, A. P. Hryshchenko, and K. H.Horodenska). The author considers this monograph a specific instance of the contact interaction of so-called languages of culture, i.e. communicative-functional discursive varieties, as well as linguistic-cultural codes that realize them. In this case, linguistic varieties correlated with certain types of cultural institutions and practices are scholarly, more specifically, linguistic, discourse, on the one hand, and, on the other, literary and, to a certain extent, ideological discourse. As a result of this interaction, the basically linguistic monograph, generally fulfilling the function of metalinguistic description and analysis, also contained elements of the metalanguage of literature and ideology. Thіs paper elucidates the peculiar communicative-functional character of the content of Ukrainskaya grammatika, which, as a grammatical model of Modern Standard Ukrainian, contains scientific, linguistic information, at the same time conveying information concerning Ukrainian culture and literature. The author determines socio-cultural factors that led to such duality of communicative-functional nature of this monograph, and also demonstrates how these factors influenced the choice of illustrative citations and their authors as well as characteristics given them in the appendix «The index of writers». He also discusses some other issues related to the extralinguistic significance of citations and the use of literary texts as a data source for the study of standard language.