Науково-популярний дискурс доби українізації: 20-ті роки ХХ ст

In the context of V. M Rusanivsky's works on the history of the Ukrainian literary language, the peculiarities of the language of the popular science genre of the 1920s have been clarified. Having the skill of a scientist-popularizer of linguistic knowledge, V. M Rusansivsky simply and easily managed to convey to a wide range of readers complex scientific problems, in particular in the publications: «Native Word» (1969), «Is it written correctly» (1972), «The life of the word» (1978; co-author), «Bloom, word!» (1983; coauthor), «Our Kalinov language» (1984). Attention is paid to the main areas of popularization of knowledge in the 1920s, it is investigated that thematically popular science literature was grouped around the problems of socio-political, natural, pedagogical, medical, technical and so on. The peculiarity of this period is the sharp decline of the humanitarian direction of popularization of knowledge, which prevailed in the nineteenth century, and in the early twentieth century. Instead of popular books related to the history of Ukraine, art, language, literature, a large amount of literature of ideological content appears. The history of popular publications in popular science carried out by numerous publishing houses in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Katerynoslav, Poltava, and Odessa is outlined. Specific texts, features of construction of a popular statement, lexical and syntactic means are considered; brief information about authors-popularizers of scientific knowledge, in particular Yakov Chepig and Volodymyr Pidhayetsky; the contribution of famous educators of that time in the development of the language of popular-scientific discourse. It is emphasized that the language of popular-scientific texts in the period was the object of special attention of linguists. In 1928, the scientist and poet Mykola Gladky published the book Our Newspaper Language, which contained a separate section entitled The Essence of Popular Presentation. He is also the author of The Case for the Promotion of Scientific Knowledge (1928). Both special works on the theory of popularization of scientific knowledge and extensive popular science literature created in the 1920s are evidence of how relevant and important this problem was at that time.