Established in 2016 (previously: Department of the History of the Ukrainian Language since 1992; Department of the History and Stylistics of the Ukrainian Language since 2009).
Head of the Department – Honored Science and Technology Worker of Ukraine, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine L. Shevchenko.
The department’s academic staff includes 2 Doctors of Sciences and 11 PhDs in Philology, including 2 Professors, 8 Associate Professors, 3 Assistant Professors.
The departmentʼs members teach stylistics-related courses at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology and other structural units of the University.
The departmentʼs staff have published over 1,500 academic works on functional stylistics, media linguistics, legal linguistics, as well as political, business, scientific, professional, and literary communication. Under the leadership of L. Shevchenko, a media linguistic school was established in Ukraine.
Since 2000, the department has published the academic journal Current Issues of Ukrainian Linguistics: Theory and Practice.
The lexicographic project Ideas, Figures, Texts in Ukrainian Culture has been successfully implemented since 2004, and more than 30 innovative dictionaries have been published: the first in Europe English-Ukrainian Dictionary of International, Comparative and European Law; English-Ukrainian Legal Dictionary; Jurislinguistics: Dictionary of Terms and Concepts; Media Linguistics: Dictionary of Terms and Concepts; New Dictionary of Foreign Words; and the annual series of dictionaries New Words and Phraseologisms in the Ukrainian Mass Media produced with the participation of young scholars, etc.
Educational publications have been developed in the following areas: stylistics (L. Shevchenko, L. Shulinova); Ukrainian language in professional communication (O. Pyatetska, T. Andrieieva); the intellectual evolution of the Ukrainian literary language (L. Shevchenko); linguistic folklore studies (Yu. Dyadyshcheva-Rosovetska); terminology studies (D. Syzonov, S. Ovseiichyk); media and legal linguistics (L. Shevchenko, D. Dergach, D. Syzonov); suggestive linguistics (O. Klymentova); idiostylistics (O. Lutsenko), among others.
In 2021, Ukraine’s first innovative textbooks Linguistic Expertise and Theory of Media Linguistics (L. Shevchenko, D. Syzonov) were published.
The department maintains active cooperation with the International
Committee of Slavists (L. Shevchenko serves as Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Committee of Slavists and a member of the Stylistic Commission), and the International Chamber of Commerce (L. Shevchenko is the Head of the Linguistic Expertise Bureau). Department members participate in research projects in Poland, Czech Republic, France, North Macedonia, the Republic of Serbia, South Korea and other countries.
Each year, the department organizes the scientific festival «STYLE_M_K_FEST». Additionally, it successfully runs student clubs in stylistics, media linguistics, and terminology.