Features of Ivan Ohiienko's language style

The article analyzes the peculiarities of the language style of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist, Professor Ivan Ohiienko. Ivan Ohiienko is known to have made a great contribution to the development of the stylistics of the Ukrainian language.An important contribution to the normalization of the stylistics of the Ukrainian lan-guage is «Ukrainian Stylistic Dictionary: A Textbook for the Study of Literary Language» by Ivan Ohiienko. The dictionary contains a number of stylistic instructions, materials for historical understanding of spelling and literary variants of grammatical forms.It is an established fact that many normative words suggested by Ivan Ohiienko were accepted by modern stylistics. The scientist considered purity, uniqueness, correctness, cla-rity of form, richness of forms, and color to be the main features of any literary language. Ivan Ohiienko’s magazine «Ridna Mova» came to be considered as a fi nd for studying the author’s style. At the same time, the analysis of the material of his scien-tifi c achievements allows modern linguists to solve current linguistic issues.It is concluded that Ivan Ohiienko’s language style is relatively autologous and at the same time expressive. Ivan Ohiienko’s language is characterized by considerable refl ec-tions laden with emotional expressiveness, which manifests itself in emotionally-colored appeals and pleas, digressions, rhetorical questions, and exclamatory intonations.Our research shows that the emotionality and expressiveness of Ivan Ohiienko’s language are enhanced due to the use of syntactic means of expression: apiopesis, and grammatical parallelism.Attention is drawn to the fact that Ivan Ohiienko’s language style is characte-rized by expressiveness, which produces a pragmatic eff ect on the reader. The author infl uences the development of events in the text; shows a negative or positive attitude, raises questions of life truths and thus aff ects the understanding, awareness of the problem by the reader. Figurative components in I. Ohiienko’s texts are used to infl u-ence the emotional sphere of the addressee, they inform, persuade, and encourage