Lecture by Michael Moser, professor at the University of Vienna, for students majoring in B11 ‘Philology’
West Ukrainian National University, in partnership with the University of Rzeszów, hosted a guest lecture by renowned Slavicist Professor Michael Moser, a researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria), Professor Peter Pazmani of the Catholic University in Budapest (Hungary) and the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (Germany), Doctor Honoris Causa of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Honorary Professor of NaUKMA.
The meeting was held as part of a training course on ‘Language Culture in English-, German- and Ukrainian-speaking Societies’ for students majoring in Philology (B11), which makes the event important in shaping the professional language competence of future communications specialists. Professor Moser gave a lecture entitled ‘Kontakty językowe między językiem ukraińskim a polskim: co wiemy i czego jeszcze chcemy się dowiedzieć’ (Language contacts between Ukrainian and Polish: what we know and what we still want to learn), devoted to the mutual influences of the Ukrainian and Polish languages, their historical development and the cultural dimension of language contacts.
Particular attention was paid to the influence of the Ukrainian language on Polish in different historical periods, loanwords, common word-building models, semantic parallels and intercultural processes that shaped the linguistic space of Central and Eastern Europe. Students worked on examples of Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-German translation, considering the accuracy of the transmission of cultural and linguistic nuances and the influence of the peculiarities of the Ukrainian language on contemporary approaches to the translation of terminology, idioms, and stylistically coloured expressions.
The event was an important step in deepening inter-university cooperation and contributed to a deeper understanding of the linguistic processes that unite Ukraine and Europe, inspiring students to further scientific research and the development of intercultural communication.
