Today, the international scientific conference on the topic "The Ukrainian Language as a Sociocultural and Psychological Phenomenon" began its work at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, the media center of VDU reported. \nThe conference is attended by well-known scholars from Volyn State University, leading universities of Kyiv, Odesa, Lublin, Ternopil, Simferopol, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Donetsk, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, and a number of Ukrainian academic institutions. \nDuring the conference, scholars intended to examine the problems and patterns of the development of the Ukrainian language in the media, discuss the issue of the status of the Ukrainian language and the current language situation in Ukraine, the use of filler words and "surzhyk" in the lexicon of Ukrainians, and other equally interesting issues. \nThe conference will last for two days. Today plenary sessions are taking place, and on April 3 the scholars will work in sections. \n