La conscience linguistique en transition : migrations forcées, identité et intégration par le langage en Transcarpatie aux XXe et XXIe siècles
Axe de recherche 1 : Déplacements, dépaysements et décalages : hommes, savoirs et pratiques
Contact : halyna.shumytska@gmail.com
Halyna Shumytska est sociolinguiste et professeure au Département de sociologie et de travail social à l’Université d’Oujhorod, au sein de laquelle elle est affiliée depuis 2005. Elle a occupé la fonction de doyenne de la Faculté de philologie (2013-2021) et a dirigé le Centre de recherche pour la sociologie du langage depuis 2022.
Ses recherches portent sur la sociolinguistique, la diversité des langues, la dialectologie ukrainienne, l’éducation multilingue et la relation entre le langage, l’identité et les transformations sociales. Elle est titulaire d’un doctorat en philologie (2001) sur la formation des mots dans le dialecte du Nord-Lemko et a complété son habilitation sur la situation des langues dans la Transcarpathie (2021). Elle a coordonné et a participé aux projets internationaux sur les langues minoritaires et le multilinguisme, dont « Diversité langagière contestée – traiter les langues minoritaires dans l’Ukraine post-soviétique » (2020-2023). Depuis 2020, elle a servi d’expert pour le Haut-commissariat sur les minorités nationales de l’OSCE, comme membre de la Commission sociolinguistique du Comité International des slavistes. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les transformations des identités linguistiques et socioculturelles chez les personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de l’Ukraine dans le contexte de la guerre russo-ukrainienne. Elle est la coordinatrice du projet de recherche international « Les dynamiques de la conscience linguistique des citoyens ukrainiens en temps de guerre et de migration », soutenue par le Centre pour la gouvernance et la culture en Europe (GCE-HSG) à l’université de Saint-Gall en Suisse.
Au CEFRES, Shumytska va mener le projet « Conscience linguistique en transition : migration forcée, identité, et intégration par le langage dans la Transcarpatie entre les XXe et XXIe siècles ». Le projet examine comment la migration forcée refaçonne la conscience linguistique, la négociation identitaire et l’intégration sociale en Transcarpathie, l’une des régions les plus multilingues d’Ukraine. En comparant les déplacements politiques entre 1919 et 1939 avec les déplacements contemporains causés par la guerre russo-ukrainienne (2014-aujourd’hui), la recherche restitue des schémas à long terme d’adaptation linguistique et explore le rôle du langage dans le processus d’appartenance et de formation de l’identité.
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| FORMATION | |
| 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 |
| ACTIVITÉ PROFESSIONNELLE | |
| 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 | |
| FORMATION AVANCÉE | ||
| 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) | |
| EXPÉRIENCE EN MATIÈRE DE PROJETS | ||
| 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) | |
| ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE | ||
| 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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| TRAVAUX SCIENTIFIQUES SUR LA SOCIOLINGUISTIQUE | ||
| 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 | |