The linguosophy of the opposition “own — foreign” in the texts of the period of Russian-Ukrainian war

Halyna Siuta, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Leading Researcher of Department of stylistics language culture and sociolinguistics
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Mykhailo Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

E-mail: siutagalia@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-1644

Heading: Articles
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article carries out a cognitive-textual analysis of artistic (mainly poetic and song) and  journalistic texts of 2022 — the beginning of 2023, primarily taking into account their nature as linguistic imprints of today’s objective reality and linguistic consciousness of Ukrainians. It was determined that the contrast between one’s own and another’s as­sessments occurs most clearly in the thematic segments language, space, society.

It has been established that in the conditions of Russian aggression, the evaluations of “own” and “foreign” are sharply polarized: the linguistic description of “own” takes place in the coordinates of heroization, on the other hand, the language strategy of de­humanization is maximally actualized in relation to “foreign”. The potentially neutral semantic zone “another” (as an intermediate, connecting link between “own” and “fo­reign”) in the texts of the war is leveled, erased.

Within the framework of the analysis of the thematic segment “language”, it is em­phasized that in 2022 there was a radical expansion of the Ukrainian-speaking com­municative space. This expansion is motivated by the awareness of the importance of language as a symbol of national identity.

Axiological polarization in assessments of one’s space (Ukraine — Russia) and so­ciety (Ukrainians — Russians) is manifested at the level of vocabulary, phraseology, grammar, trope creation.

Keywords: linguosophy, opposition “own — foreign”, war texts, evaluability, time-marked axio­logical norm.

LEGEND
СУМ — Bilodid, I.K. (Ed.). (1970—1980). Dictionary of the Ukrainian language: in 11 vols. Kyiv: Naukova dumka (in Ukrainian).

REFERENCES
Hrytsenko, S. (2022). Linguistic innovations of the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022. Bullet in of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. Literary studies. Linguistics. Folkloristics, 2(32), 9—13 (in Ukrainian).
Khotyn, R. (2022). Do nightingales hum? Obscene language during the war. Retrieved Ja­nuary 11, 2023 from http://surl.li/ehpad (in Ukrainian).
Kokotiukha, A. (2022). Dehumanization of the enemy during the war is the line of the infor­mation front. Retrieved January 10, 2023 from http://surl.li/ehpou (in Ukrainian).
Parakhonskyi, B. & Yavorska, H. (2019). Ontology of war and peace: security, strategy, meaning. Kyiv: NISD (in Ukrainian).
Pecherskyi, A. (2022). Rashists or orcs? How better to call the occupiers. Retrieved January 20, 2023 from http://armyinform.com.ua/2022/06/17 (in Ukrainian).
Syniashyk, A. (2022). “Sho po Rusni”: passwords, swearing and vocabulary of the Second World War — how the war changed the language. Retrieved January 10, 2023 from http://surl.li/gwlqh (in Ukrainian).
Stepanenko, M. (2023). Journalistic-political discourse 2021: lexical word-forming innovations, periphrastic resource. Kharkiv: Ivanchenko I.S. (in Ukrainian).
Siuta, H. (2022). Texts of war: situationally marked anormativity and new accents of the norm. Materials of the II International Slavic Conf., adj. in memory of Saints Cyril and Methodius (pp. 179—188). Kharkiv — Shumen (in Ukrainian).