Ways and Forms of Implementation of language legislation in Ukraine

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to propose ways and forms of implementation of language legislation, arguing the need to implement the provisions of the Law of Ukraine «On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian State Language» in 2019 by state and local authorities, public organizations and citizens. Methodology. During the preparation of the article, general and special scientific methods of cognition were used, in particular: comparative, historical, philosophical-legal, systemic, functional, generalization. The scientific novelty of the article is that it is one of the first studies on the ways and forms of implementation of the recently adopted Law of Ukraine «On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as State». It has been proved that in Ukraine, under the conditions of constitutional restart, the authorities have permanently suspended most of the positive measures of language policy. For systematic and comprehensive coverage of the outlined issues, its legal and legal dimension in the context of modern constitutional law and general perception of scientific tendencies, a considerable number of legislative acts, acts of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine have been analyzed, which has been successfully combined with references to non-fiction sources since there has been a lack of policy in recent years. Conclusions. It is proposed to consider the implementation of the Law of Ukraine «On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as State» at the NSDC meetings, since the issue of state language belongs to the sphere of national security. It is substantiated that parliamentary hearings «On the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language in Ukraine», which are also an effective form of implementation of language policy, are sufficient to hold once a cadence of parliamentary convocation, but in order to effectively implement the provisions of the law on language, identify gaps and deficiencies, outline their ways. overcoming. It is proved that the Ministry of Cultural Policy of Ukraine is not able to solve the language policy issues adequately to the language situation in Ukraine due to the considerable number of directions of its activity. Therefore, it is advisable to create a specially authorized body of executive power on state language policy. The role of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Culture and Spirituality in the implementation of the state language policy has been determined. It is argued that active media coverage of this Committee's activities in the analyzed area would be useful for local authorities, local self-government, public organizations and entities, citizens interested in the adoption of the state language, its further development. The place of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in monitoring the implementation of language legislation is outlined. In particular, the Government, together with the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Culture and Spirituality, was invited to study the implementation of the provisions of Law No. 2704-VIII in one of the regions, to hear the results of the study at a meeting, to develop recommendations for its improvement or to approve such experience and to recommend it for implementation. The experience of implementing language policy and ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian state language is explored in Ukraine, namely its forms, such as scientific conferences, round tables, symposia, congresses, discussions, etc. The high efficiency of such measures is justified in view of the possibility of obtaining approvals or substantiated comments, suggestions, and to take maximum account of the position of the scientific, political, civic and social environment in the further activity, which will contribute to the improvement of the linguistic situation. It is proved that the effective form of distribution and development in the society of the Ukrainian state language is the International Competition on the Ukrainian Language named after Peter Yatsik, the All-Ukrainian Dictator of National Unity and International Mother Language Day.

Keywords: language; official language; language policy; law; Law of Ukraine «On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as State»; state security.