VOLYN MEDIA TEXTS IN WAR CONDITIONS: FEATURES OF THE USE OF MILITARY VOCALOID

Abstract

The article examines the functioning of military vocabulary in Volyn media texts in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The peculiarities of the use of the terms “military strategy”, “state security” and their derivatives are analyzed. It is revealed that Ukrainian media represent military strategy as the protection of territorial integrity and sovereignty, while in the context of the Russian Federation this term acquires the meaning of terrorism and genocide, which is confirmed by quotes from international political figures. Special attention is paid to the emergence of a new nomination “protracted war”, which reflects the current stage of the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation. The tendency to contamination and simplification of complex terms (“state security”, “treason”, “state secret”, “General Staff”) is traced, which contributes to the brevity and accessibility of media texts for a wide audience. It is determined that military vocabulary in the Volyn media performs not only a nominative, but also an ideological and mobilization function, forming the discourse of war and consolidating society around the idea of protecting statehood. The transformation of primary concepts (“armed aggression”, “military threat”, “military security”) into secondary and derivative nominations that reflect new social and psychological realities of war, in particular “psychological aggression”, “threat of blackout”, “mine safety”, “nuclear safety”, etc., is analyzed. A tendency to expand the semantics of key terms and their adaptation to current challenges facing society is revealed. Particular attention is paid to the concepts of “information operation” and “information war”, which in modern media discourse acquire a negative connotation and are identified with disinformation, propaganda and cyber warfare. The active formation of new lexemes with the component "cyber" (cyber troops, cyber front, cyber partisans, cyberspace, etc.) that reflect new forms of confrontation in the digital sphere is traced. Particular attention is paid to the ambiguous reading of the lexeme "mobilization", which in the Ukrainian media in relation to Russia is marked as forced, absurd and fictitious, which is emphasized by the use of particles supposedly, as if, so-called and graphic highlighting with quotation marks. The emergence of a substandard form "mogilization" is revealed, which performs an expressive and evaluative function.