Stavitskaya, Lesya Alekseevna

Born November 24, 1962 in Kiev . Her father, Aleksei Fedoseyevich Stavitsky, was an outstanding literary critic, an intellectual of the sixties ^[2] , and her mother was a pediatrician ^[3] . As a child, Lesya lived for a long time with her grandmother in a village in the Poltava region ^[2] . After graduating from high school, she entered Kiev Pedagogical Institute named after A. Gorky , who graduated in 1983 ^[1] , after which she taught by distribution at secondary school No. 237 in the Kharkov massif , preparing for admission to the postgraduate school of the Institute of Linguistics. A. A. Potebni of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, where she entered in 1984 ^[2] . In 2008 she was divorced, there were no children ^[3] .

In 1987 she defended her thesis on the topic “The semantics of lexical and syntactic units in MP Bazhan's poetry”, and in 1995 - her doctoral dissertation on the topic “The aesthetics of the word in Ukrainian fiction of the 20-30s. XX century (system-functional aspect) " ^{[2] [4]} . Since 1998, she has often participated in scientific conferences, has acted as a scientific opponent, moreover, she has repeatedly appeared in the media, carefully preparing for each speech. In her speeches in the media, she refuted many common misconceptions about the Ukrainian language: for example, that foul language is a borrowing from the Russian language, citing as an example the academic publication of Vladimir Gnatyuk at the beginning of the 20th century with the Ukrainian language ^[2] .

Konstantin Koverznev entered into polemics with her, insisting on the foreignness and borrowing of the Ukrainian mat, damn, and the language of thieves . However, Stavitskaya showed in her works the exact opposite - that some words of criminal argo are of Ukrainian origin. For example, the word “labat” in the meaning of “play” originated from the jargon of Kharkov blind musicians, other words came from argo Ukrainian lyre , artisans, beggars, bursatsko-seminar argo and other sources ^[2] .

In 2003—2009 She prepared seven candidates of philological sciences, worked part-time as a professor in the departments of Ukrainian linguistics (Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky Pedagogical University named after Gregory Skovoroda, 2001–2005; Kamyanets-Podolsk State University , 2005–2006) ^[1] .

In 2003-2006, she was the head of a city seminar on gender linguistics, which was held at the base of the department of sociolinguistics at the Institute of Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ^{[5] [6] [7]} .

Author of more than 100 scientific articles, two monographs (“Aesthetics of the word in Ukrainian poetry of the 10–30s of the 20th century”, “Argo, jargon, slang: Social differentiation of the Ukrainian language”) and four dictionaries - “A brief Russian-Ukrainian contrasting dictionary vocabulary ”(co-authored with Yekaterina Lenets ^[2] ),“ A brief dictionary of slang words in the Ukrainian language ”,“ Ukrainian jargon. Dictionary "," Ukrainian without taboos. Dictionary of foul language and its correspondences ” ^[1] ,“ Genres and styles in the history of Ukrainian literary language ”(1989, in collaboration),“ Ukrainian jargon. Dictionary " ^[8]

“Ukrainian language without taboos. Dictionary of foul language and its correspondences ”, named in the second edition as“ Ukrainian jargon. Dictionary, and the monograph “Argo, jargon, slang: Social differentiation of the Ukrainian language” became pioneering (innovative) scientific works in this direction. A number of her works are devoted to the study of Russian-Ukrainian surzhik : “Prodigal surzhik: myth, language, style”, “The incestuous child of bilingualism”, “Russian-speaking Ukrainians: who are they?”, “Sociopsychological aspects of speech activity of“ Russian-speaking Ukrainians ”; “Surzhik: Socio and Ethnopsychological Preconditions for the Origin and Existence” and others, in particular, the collection “Ukrainian-Russian Bilingualism. Lingvosotsiocultural aspects ", as well as an article written in collaboration with Vladimir Trub as a small monograph" Surzhik: Myth, Language, Communication " ^[2] .

Although the vocabulary works of Stavitskaya had an echo in society and the media, but they passed by the attention of scientific circles, which Savitskaya herself noted. According to the results of the reader-expert survey, the works of L. A. Stavitskaya "A brief dictionary of slang vocabulary of the Ukrainian language" and "Argo, jargon, slang: Social differentiation of the Ukrainian language" are named among the books of the 15th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine, which influenced the Ukrainian world ^[1] .

She was awarded a scholarship of the President of Ukraine (1997–1999), participated in foreign scholarship programs (Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego, Warsaw, Poland, 2008; The Eugene and Daymel fellowship in Ukrainian studies, Harvard Institute, USA, Cambridge, 2006) ^{[1 ]} .

• Stavitskaya Lesya Alekseevna. Ukrainian language without taboo = Ukrainian language without taboo. Vocabulary obscene lexicon that її відповідників. Obscene, euphemism, sexuality. - Kiev: Criticism, 2008. - 453 p. - ISBN 966-8978-01-3 .
• Stavitskaya Lesya Alekseevna. Ukrainian jargon. Dictionary = Ukrainian Hot. Vocabulary. - Kiev: Criticism, 2005. - 494 p. - ISBN 966-7679-74-8 .

• Professor Lesya Stavitska: “Laika cannot be blamed for principles” , Ukrainian truth of Life . Date of circulation November 20, 2018. (ukr.)