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

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.