БАГАТОМОВНІСТЬ ЯК ПРИКМЕТНА РИСА ЛІТЕРАТУРИ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО БАРОКО

The article is devoted to highlight the problem of multilingualism of 
Ukrainian literature. Particular attention in this connection is drawn to the 
Ukrainian Baroque era literature, because it developed primarily on the basis 
of three languages almost with the same intensity and fruitfulness: Ukrainian 
literary language, Latin and Polish. In particular, it is revealed the generalized 
vision of literary about the problems of languages coexistence within literature of 
Baroque era. It is outlined the importance of foreign languages in the Ukrainian 
society of the second half of XVII – early XVIII century. Distribution features 
of these languages in Ukraine are considered. It is found the role that is given to 
each language in a particular field of use and factors that affected the choice of artistic language literature of «the average age»: religious and educational life on 
Ukrainian lands, international relations of Ukrainian culture and its reorientation 
like Western one, communicative situation and principles of rhetoric.