Сучасна літературна творчість львівських письменників: народна мова чи літературний стандарт?

This research addresses a key objective in the comprehensive study of language at the beginning of the 21st century in Lviv: analysing literature created by Lviv writers, a significant and diverse body of work that represents a notable phenomenon in the history of the Ukrainian literary language. The analysis of Lviv authors’ works reveals varying degrees of dialectal elements across different linguistic levels. This local characteristic of Lviv texts reflects the broader expansion of dialectal language use, typical of Lviv’s linguistic landscape in the early 21st century. It is noted that the literary activity of Lviv writers during this period continues the tradition of stylizing literary Ukrainian and Polish texts, a practice established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These stylized Lviv texts, which gained popularity among readers in Ukraine and abroad, represent a high culture of literary language creation that embodies Lviv’s linguistic identity and contributes to the cultural and linguistic renaissance of the city.

vernacular, dialect, literary standard, language of Lviv, Lviv writers, Lviv texts, stylization, dialectal features.