Jazykové uvědomění v přechodném období: Nucená migrace, identita a jazyková integrace v Zakarpatí během 20. a 21. století
Výzkumná osa 1: Přemístění, vykořenění, odchýlení: lidé, vědění, praktiky
Kontakt: halyna.shumytska@gmail.com
Halyna Shumytska je sociolingvistka a profesorka na Katedře sociologie a sociální práce Univerzity v Užhorodu, kde působí od roku 2005. V letech 2013–2021 zastávala funkci děkanky Filologické fakulty a od roku 2022 vede Výzkumné centrum pro sociologii jazyka.
Ve výzkumu se zaměřuje na sociolingvistiku, jazykovou rozmanitost, ukrajinskou dialektologii, vícejazyčné vzdělávání a vztah mezi jazykem, identitou a společenskými změnami. V roce 2001 dokončila doktorát z filologie prácí o slovotvorbě v severolemkovských dialektech a v roce 2021 dokončila habilitační práci o jazykové situaci v Zakarpatsku (Transkarpatsku). Koordinovala a účastnila se mezinárodních projektů zaměřených na menšinové jazyky a vícejazyčnost, včetně projektu „Sporná jazyková rozmanitost – přístup k menšinovým jazykům v postsovětské Ukrajině“ (2020–2023). Od roku 2020 působí jako odbornice pro Vysokého komisaře OBSE pro národnostní menšiny a od roku 2022 jako členka Sociolingvistické komise Mezinárodního výboru slavistů. Její současný výzkum se zabývá proměnami jazykových a sociokulturních identit mezi vnitřně vysídlenými osobami na Ukrajině v kontextu rusko-ukrajinské války. Koordinuje mezinárodní výzkumný projekt „Dynamika jazykového vědomí ukrajinských občanů v době války a migrace“, podporovaného Centrem pro správu věcí veřejných a kulturu v Evropě (GCE-HSG) při Univerzitě v St. Gallenu ve Švýcarsku.
Během pobytu v CEFRESu bude Shumytska rozvíjet projekt „Jazykové uvědomění v období přechodu: Nucená migrace, identita a jazyková integrace v Zakarpatí během 20. a 21. století“. V něm zkoumá, jak nucená migrace mění jazykové uvědomnění, vyjednávání identity a sociální integraci v Zakarpatí, jednom z nejvíce vícejazyčných regionů Ukrajiny. Porovnáním politického vysídlení mezi lety 1919 a 1939 se současným vysídlením způsobeným rusko-ukrajinskou válkou (2014–dosud) sleduje dlouhodobé vzorce jazykové adaptace a zkoumá roli jazyka v procesech sounáležitosti a formování identity.
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| EDUCATION | |
| 1986–1990 | Sambir Pedagogical College (qualification:
Primary school teacher, after-school caregiver) |
| 1990–1995 | Faculty of Philology (Ukrainian Department),
Uzhhorod State University (qualification: Philologist, Teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature) |
| 1995–1999 | Postgraduate studies at the Department
of the Ukrainian Language of Uzhhorod State University |
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY | |
| 1999–2003 | Teacher of the Ukrainian language at the branch of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine at the lyceum in Uzhhorod |
| 2003–2005 | Associate Professor of the Department of Methods of Teaching Social Sciences and Humanities at the Transcarpathian Institute of Postgraduate Education |
| 2005–2021 | Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism, UzhNU |
| 2006–2013 | Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philology for Academic Affairs, Head of the “Media Perspectives Press Club” for Young Journalists |
| 2013–2021 | Dean of the Faculty of Philology of UzhNU,
Director of the UzhNU Media Centre |
| 2021 | Professor of the Department of Journalism, UzhNU | |
| 2022 | Professor of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, UzhNU | |
| ADVANCED TRAINING | ||
| 2006–2007 | Internship in practical journalism at the BBC in London | |
| 2010 | Internship in journalism at the FOJO Media Institute in Sweden | |
| 2012 | Internship at the University of Educational Management of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine | |
| 2021 | Internship at the Free University of Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy) | |
| 2019–2020 | Internship within the programme “Development of a competence-based approach to learning and teaching” (organized by NGO “GoHigher” and partners: British Council Ukraine, Pearson, Dinternal Education, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the IT company Grammarly) |
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| 2024 | Internship within the programs «English-language Academic Communication in the Cross-cultural Context» and «Global Academic Communication: Advanced Level» (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (IFNUL) | |
| PROJECT EXPERIENCE | ||
| 2006–2007 | Participant of the EU/TACIS BBC project “Media Skills
Development – Ukraine” |
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| 2015–2020 | Scientific regional consultant of the project “Formation of Multilingualism of Children and Students: Progressive Ideas in the Ukrainian Context” (co-organised by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the OSCE HCNM) |
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| 2018 | Project Manager of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in cooperation with the European Pravda within the framework of the project “Promoting Reforms in the Regions”, funded by the European Union under the programme
“Support to Civil Society in Ukraine” and the International Renaissance Foundation – “Through dialogue with national minorities – to resolve the language situation in Zakarpattia” |
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| 2020–2023 | Participant of the project “Contested Language Diversity – Dealing with Minority Languages in post-Soviet Ukraine” (Giessen (Germany), 2020-2023) | |
| 2025–2026 | Project Manager Dynamics of Language Awareness among Ukrainian Citizens in the Context of War and Migration with financial support of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) | |
| RESEARCH PAPERS | ||
| 2001 | PhD thesis “Word Formation of Appellative Nouns in the North
Lemko Dialects of the Ukrainian Language” |
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| 2021 | Doctoral dissertation “The Language Situation in Zakarpattia in
1991-2020: The Regional Dimension of Language Policy” |
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| SCIENTIFIC WORKS ON SOCIOLINGUISTICS | ||
| 1 | Shumytska, H.V. (2019). Through dialogue to mutual understanding in a multilingual space: regional reception of language innovations in the educational sphere. Monograph. Uzhhorod: Grazhda. 104 p. | |
| 2 | Shumytska, H. (2020). The state language is a unifying factor in preserving the multilingual diversity of modern Ukraine. STUDIA UKRAINICA POSNANIENSIA. Zeszyt VIII / 1. Poznaǹ: Wydawnictwo Naukove UAM. P. 189–199. | |
| 3 | Shumytska, H.V. (2022). The Phenomenon of Language Policy in the Ukrainian Sociolinguistic Tradition: Approaches to Its Analysis in the Regional Dimension. Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 57, Article 2679. https://doi.org/10.11649/sfps.2679 | |
| 4 | Shumytska, H. (2022). Changes in the linguistic identity of Ukrainians during the Russian-Ukrainian war: 2022. Ukrainian language. 4 (84). P. 3–10. | |
| 5 | Shumytska, H. The language situation in Transcarpathia in 1991–2021: the regional dimension of language policy: a monograph. Kyiv: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, 2024. 436 p. | |
| 6 | Shumytska, H.V., Sharkan, V.V. (2024). Languages of national minorities in Transcarpathia: analysis of media content in war conditions. Ukrainian ethnolinguistic continuum in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine: a monograph/editor-in-chief S.O. Sokolova, technical editor I.I. Braga. Kyiv: Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. P. 211–227. | |
| 7 | Shumytska, H. (2025). Autobiographical narrative of linguistic personality formation in a multilingual border region: Documentation based on in-depth interviews. In: Kiss, N., Wingender, M. (eds.) Contested language diversity in wartime Ukraine: National minorities, language biographies and linguistic landscape. Stuttgart, Ibidem. P. 273-297. | |
| 8 | Shumytska, H. (2025). The rear region in wartime Ukraine – language policy and the language situation in Transcarpathia. In: Shumytska, Halyna and Krouglov, Alex, (eds.) Languages and cultures in times of war: Collective monograph (pp. 133–154). Uzhhorod National University: Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206636/. https://doi.org/10.14324/000.ch.10206636 | |
| 9 | Shumytska, H., & Tokar, M. The linguistic situation in Transcarpathia (Ukraine) during the war: the state and prospects of the state language and the languages of national communities, in particular Romanian. 25 Years Since the Establishment of the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology, Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca: an anniversary collection / ed. Ioan Gerbil and Mihaela Gerbil. Cluj-Napoca: Casa cărţii de ştiinţă; Bucureşti : R.C.R. Editorial, 2025. P. 460-476. URL: https://uur.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/VOLUM-25-DE-ANI-DE-UCRAINEANA-2025-Cluj-BT-F.pdf | |
| 10 | Shumytska, H., Shandor, F. (2026). Depopulation of the Hungarian National Minority in Transcarpathia as One of the Consequences of Russia’s War against Ukraine. In: Vamling, K., Kiss, N., Petersson, B., Pidkuimukha, L. (eds) Languages in Conflict and War. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08419-4_4 | |
| 11 | Shumytska, H. Research by the Research Centre for the Sociology of Language at Uzhhorod University in the Context of Military Transformation / Society in Times of Change: Sociological Reflections and Practices of Social Support: a collective monograph dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Uzhhorod University. Prague; Uzhhorod: OKTAN PRINT, 2026. P.372–387. DOI: 10.46489/SITSR-26-06-16 | |