Current issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice
The «Current issues of Ukrainian linguistics : theory and practice» is a peer-reviewed journal that supports the policy of open access to academic publications. The journal is intended for specialists in the modern linguistics, as well as scholars of higher educational institutions. Separate issues are devoted to anniversary dates in linguistics. The topic is correlated with the actual problems of the language commissions of the International Committee of Slavists. The editorial board consists of leading specialists in Slavic studies. Foundation year: 2000. Electronic version: 2017 Cluster: Humanities and Arts (Specialty В11 Philology) ISSN 2311-2697 e-ISSN 2523-4870 Indexing & Archiving: BRILL DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Index Copernicus International (ICI) OUCI (Open Ukrainian Citation Index) Research Bib ROAD UlrichsWEB Maksymovych Scientific Library of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University National Library of Ukraine named after V.I.Vernadskyi Founder: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv USREOU 02070944 Legal address: 60, Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 01033 Postal address: 64/13, Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601 ROR: https://ror.org/02aaqv166
Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка
Innovative linguistics in the master's degree: the author's view Floriy Batsevich (article-review of the publication: Fundamentals of linguistic narratology: textbook / Floriy Batsevich. Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2025. 292 p.)
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Syntactic dominants in the poetic idiostyle of Mykhailo Kamenyuk
This article explores the syntactic architecture of the poetic idiostyle of Mykhailo Kamenyuk through the lens of dominant syntactic patterns that characterize his lyrical discourse. Rather than treating syntax as a purely structural layer, the research repositions it as a dynamic stylistic and expressive resource central to constructing poetic meaning. The study identifies and categorizes recurring syntactic formations – such as ellipsis, inversion, rhetorical interrogation, fragmentation, and syntactic parallelism – as integral mechanisms by which the poet shapes the rhythm, imagery, and philosophical depth of his verse. Drawing upon Kamenyuk's 2020 poetry collection "...and the stone is ancient Latin, and the forest – Slavic script...", the article reveals how syntactic dominants perform beyond their grammatical functions, serving as semiotic vectors that articulate existential reflection, emotional density, and spiritual contemplation. These syntactic strategies, while linguistically rooted, function as compositional devices that support thematic cohesion and lyrical intensity. The analysis uncovers the poet's deliberate deviation from conventional syntactic templates in favor of expressive discontinuities, creating fragmented yet symbolically charged utterances. Inversions disrupt expected word orders to produce semantic reorientation and emphasis, while ellipses introduce ambiguity and introspective depth. Rhetorical questions, frequently used without anticipation of an answer, emerge as dialogic tools that establish a confessional tone and meditative atmosphere. Meanwhile, graphic and prosodic segmentation of syntactic units reflects a poetics of pause and pacing, whereby the visual arrangement of lines mirrors emotional cadence and internal conflict. Moreover, the article emphasizes the synergy between syntactic construction and poetic scenography: the alignment of phrase-level structures with visual layout intensifies the expressive modality of the poetic voice. This interplay positions syntax not only as a linguistic phenomenon but as an aesthetic framework that encodes the poet's worldview. Kamenyuk's idiostyle thus emerges as a synthesis of grammatical experimentation and metaphysical inquiry, where syntactic dominants anchor the lyrical subject's navigation through spiritual, ethical, and emotional landscapes. The study contributes to broader idiostylistic scholarship by highlighting the value of syntactic analysis in poetic stylistics. It advocates for an integrated approach that considers syntax as a key site of authorial intention and poetic innovation. Future research may benefit from comparative perspectives involving other contemporary Ukrainian poets or cross-level stylistic correlations, particularly those linking syntax with phonetic or lexical features. Overall, the article affirms the significance of syntactic dominants in manifesting the linguistic uniqueness of Kamenyuk's poetic world.
Specificity of periphrase in the Song of the Songs translated by Methodius
The article is dedicated to the specifics of periphrasis in the Methodian translation of the Song of Songs, a text of oral-poetic origin that has undergone literary processing. Its translation-adoptation peculiarities are emphasized: interlanguage, interconfessional, interethnic, and temporal as well. The importance of a comprehensive linguo-folkloristic analysis, carried out at all linguistic levels, when studying the poetics of the literary monument, is underscored. The author proposes to consider the article as preliminary observations that should precede further exhaustive and methodologically complex subsequent research. The definition of a periphrasis as a descriptive phrase where an object or phenomenon is not named directly but is presented through its attributes is proposed as a conclusion to the overview of the most mainstream contemporary studies, highlighting the range of issues related to periphrasis. The most representative periphrases in the text of the Song of Songs are considered and analyzed. Situational periphrases, pleonastic double periphrases that serve to express imagery, toponymic periphrases, periphrases that are metaphorical in nature, poetic periphrases based on visual ekphrasis, as well as gustatory, olfactory, etc. are differentiated. A construction based on the participial construction is highlighted, where the target word is "mother" or "beloved". Exquisite examples of composite periphrases for the referent word "fruits" are analyzed. The article also sets the base and explores possibilities for future research on Euphemistic paraphrases of taboo words. The consideration of periphrasis, which is widely represented in the Methodian devotional (chetiy) translation of the Song of Songs, is generalized as a technique of linguopoetics. It is emphasized that Methodius managed to deeply sense the specifics of periphrasis and find an adequate linguistic form for its implementation to familiarize readers with the stylistic richness of one of the most poetic books of the Bible.
Shopwindow perfume advertisement: reflection of multimodal cohesion in its structure
This article examines the structural features that reflect two principal semiotic modes in the inner construction of a perfume advertisement, ultimately creating the overall semiotic structure of the ad. The advertisement, representing a pair of common brand perfumes, consists of five semi-individual panels. The constructional specification of this penta- fold paneled advertisement is intrinsically linked to its semiotic structure. The entire semiotic structure of the advertisement can be understood as comprising two independent modes: the verbal mode and the visual mode. Each mode is further subdivided into distinct components, and some components even include additional sub-components that contribute to the advertisement's intricate design. The verbal semiotic mode includes essential components such as the naming complex, the logo, and the slogan. The naming complex itself is a multi-layered entity, comprising several sub-components, including the brandname, the individual name, the genitive name, and supplementary information that further clarifies the product's identity. On the other hand, the visual semiotic mode is defined by its own set of components, namely the icon, colour, and space. The icon is made up of three sub-components: the perfume bottle, the model, and the background. The colour component is represented by a variety of sub- components, each contributing to the overall colour scheme that visually conveys the product's appeal. Multimodal cohesion within this complex perfume advertisement is achieved through the reiteration of verbal and visual components, which are mirrored across the different panels. These reiterated components (sub-components) function as either hyper-integrants or hypo-integrants, creating a complex and densely interconnected net of repeated elements that together form the integrity of the advertisement. Furthermore, the advertisement's five panels are spatially organised into three distinct groups based on their position within the layout: one central panel, two quasi-central panels, and two peripheral panels. This division not only reflects the structural symmetry of the advertisement but also enhances the emphasis placed on specific elements within the overall visual narrative. This study highlights the intricate ways in which verbal and visual components interact and support one another, creating a cohesive and compelling advertisement that appeals to both logical and emotional responses from the audience.
MASS MEDIA ISSUES IN THE MODERN LINGUISTICS
Genre variability of modern PR-communication in the cultural and artistic sphere
The article formulates the main directions and aspects of the topical and unexplored problem of genre implementation of PR communication and its variability in the cultural and artistic sphere in the Ukrainian humanities. Based on the texts of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv, the Kyiv National Academic Young Theater, the Kyiv Academic Drama Theater on Podil, the National Cultural, Art and Museum Complex "Mystetsky Arsenal", the Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist", published on their official websites, pages on Instagram, Facebook, and the video hosting Youtube, an analysis of existing genres, their invariants and varieties that implement PR functions and proposals in accordance with the main goals and objectives in the most appropriate ways using verbal and non-verbal means, taking into account the object (art, culture), the heterogeneity of recipients, and the requirements of the modern digital environment is carried out. It was found that since the cultural and artistic product is highly emotional and socially significant, the genres of PR texts should reflect informativeness (press release, post-release, reportage, etc.), analyticalness (article, review, comment, etc.) and emotionality (stories, reels, etc.), influentialness / manipulativeness (advertising genres), aesthetics (the studied sphere of social activity largely meets these needs of recipients). It was found that the genre system of PR in the cultural and artistic sphere is open and dynamic, consisting of three main groups that function simultaneously, ensuring integrated communication: traditional PR genres, media genres and Internet genres. The transformation of traditional genres, the emergence of new ones and their combination are due to "economy of attention and language resources", dialogicity and interactivity, creolization. Research into the effectiveness of individual genres at different language levels and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for generating PR texts in this area have been identified as perspective.
Codex as a legislative act: linguistic and legal analysis of the criminal codex of ukraine as of August 4, 2025
The article is devoted to linguistic and legal analysis of the current Criminal Codex of Ukraine as of August 4, 2025. The study wa scarried out on the basis of observations of the Criminal Codex of Ukraine as of August 4, 2025. The tendency to integrate knowledge from various related fields is traced, which led to the emergence of new interdisciplinary sciences, include juristiclinguistics. It focuses on the study of communicative resource and stylistic potential of the language of law, high-quality linguistic support for law making, law enforcement, the correct use and interpretation of legal terms, as well as the implementation of linguistic expertise of oral and written texts, in particular those of a conflict and pathogenic nature. Based on the material of the aforenamed criminal codex, analysis of structural, content and linguistic-stylistic features was carried out, which is relevant in modern research legal-linguistic space. The importance of improving the quality of regulatory and legal documents for the effective regulation of legal relations and the proper functioning of Ukrainian legislation is emphasized. Substantive and procedural codexes are distinguished and characterized, depending on the type of legal norms contained in the codex. The division was made despite the existence of different criteria for classifying codexes. The possibility of codexes changing over a certain period of time after their adoption was emphasized, despite their inherentimmut abilit and so-called external stability - existence over a long period of time, and internal stability – related to the content of the norms contained in the codexes. The main reasons for the variability of codexes are named: political, social, economic, legal, etc. The need to make changes to the current codexes is justified. The structural and substantive changes in the new edition of the Criminal Codex of Ukraine as of August 4, 2025 are considered in detail: supplementing articles with new parts, replacing terms, updating the conceptual and terminological apparatus, etc.
MODERN LINGUISTICS IN IDEAS AND RESEARCH INTERPRETATIONS
Development of Germanic analytical future tense forms: mechanism of oscillation asymptote equilibrium
The purpose of this article is to reveal the mechanism of the future tense formation in the Germanic languages starting from the Gothic language as the oldest source of the Common Germanic grammatical peculiarities. The understanding and revealing of this mechanism include the first stage in which the initial and final analytical formants of the future tense are identified and distinguished. This stage presupposes the description of formants according to their morphological features as separate morphological units. The second stage is connected with the semantic peculiarities when initial and final formants are understood as a common semantic unit that functions in a certain sentence context. Semantic properties and their variations are traces from one Germanic language to another and within one and the same Germanic language during its development – from the Old, Middle and to the New periods. The subject of the research is peculiarities of the formation mechanism of temporal verb forms for projecting the action into the future. To describe the future action the Gothic language used analytical forms including initial formant containing inchoative or preterite-present verbs and final formant represented by the infinitive. Initial formants were the reflection of Greek or Latin lexical units with highly developed modal or inchoative meaning. It was the Gothic language that outlined the peculiarities of the analytical future tense formation, namely the process of oscillation within the initial formant between modal and inchoative lexical units. The oscillation could be recognized as unstable equilibrium taking into consideration the fading of Gothic which did not approach the stage of stable equilibrium between modal and inchoative lexical units. If the Gothic language demonstrated only oscillation within the initial formant, other Germanic languages in the periods of Old and Middle developments demonstrated oscillation within the initial and final formants. There occurred the oscillation in Old High German and Middle High German in both formants in particular. Such oscillation disappeared in the 15th century. Another case of oscillation within the first formant was connected with two leading preterite-present (later modal) verbs with lexical meaning of obligation and volition. The New Frisian language demonstrates the extreme cases of the initial formant oscillation when only one modal verb is used excluding other modal and inchoative verbs. The detailed analysis of medieval Germanic texts demonstrated the facts of unstable equilibrium within the initial formant when modal verbs of obligation and volition were used. Such unstable equilibrium had the feature of asymptote indicating fluctuation, variation of modal verbs used for different persons. Asymptote demonstrates the fact of impossibility of getting stable equilibrium and modal verbs correlation within the initial formant. Instability of modal verbs makes the analytical future tense form more flexible and reliable for representing actions in future temporal projection. All these features make the analytical future tense form develop and be applied in different contextual cases of future temporal in all Germanic languages.
Cognitive superiority of Ukrainian stratcom as a meaningful interaction between internal and external narratives
The article is devoted to analysing the issue of cognitive superiority of Ukrainian strategic communications in situations of intense informational and psychological confrontation. The focus is on two contemporary Ukrainian narratives – ‘The Armed Forces of Ukraine as a factor in European security’ and ‘Ukrainians – destroyers of the Russian Empire’ – which have come to the fore in the contemporary information space. These narratives (external and internal) interact meaningfully within the Ukrainian strategic communications system, providing a cognitive advantage in communicating with target audiences and actively influencing the perception of events both within the country and on the international stage. These narratives have a solid foundation in real events, mobilising society to resist and maintaining a high level of responsibility in the face of life's challenges, actively countering Russian propaganda narratives. The meaningful interaction of these narratives creates an image of Ukraine as a state fighting not only for its own freedom, but also for the freedom of all of Europe. The combination of the historical narrative and the narrative about the current threat makes it possible to assess the current Russian-Ukrainian war both as a continuation of centuries-old resistance and as a modern civilisational conflict: the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not simply holding back the aggressor, but are destroying the imperial structures that threaten the entire continent today. Interacting with each other, these narratives provide relevant semantic accents in Ukraine's strategic communications. These narratives are being tested in the information space, demonstrating how the meaningful interaction of narratives ensures the cognitive dominance of Ukrainian strategic communications.
Political Internet discourse as a subject of linguistic research: definition and characteristics
The article is devoted to the study of political discourse within the virtual space – an "artificial" world created in recent decades with the help of information technologies, where individuals are able to communicate with each other over vast distances, modeling their own personality at will. The research, in particular, is aimed at studyinh how political communication changes in the virtual reality, what linguistic and extralinguistic means are used by political actors when communicating with their electorate and between each other. Using the categories proposed by T. van Dijk, the article proposes the use of new characteristic features for Internet discourse, such as speaker's anonymity, semi-formal tone of communication, more open and competitive expression of opinions, emotionality, etc. for the analysis of communication within the virtual space. The article proposes a clarification of the definition of political discourse, highlights its most important features, defines differences in communicative strategies depending on the gender of the speaker or political actor. With the help of the proposed categories and based on the works of such prominent scholars as R. Wodak, L. de Saussure and T. van Dijk, the article provides a new definition of the concept of political Internet discourse, which is aimed at a more complete consideration of the interaction between individuals within the virtual space. It is suggested to use the categories proposed by T. van Dijk for the analysis of communication within the virtual space, which will allow to single out communicative situations that are directly related to the political sphere. By comparing communicative situations in the "artificial" world with the physical one, it is argued that a characteristic feature of political Internet discourse is the transfer of extralinguistic components through textual communication. It is clarified that in many communicativesituations between political actors and other users, the latter act as the information recipients, limited only to the ability to interact with other recipients. In conclusion, it is suggested to understand political Internet discourse as actions of a linguistic and extralinguistic nature, related to the political sphere and implemented in the virtual space by political actors and ordinary users; actions, which are characterized by the possibility of anonymous subjectivity, semi-formality, a more open and competitive nature of expressing opinions, etc., and in which the transfer of extralinguistic components is achieved mainly through text communication. Based on the categorical clarifications made in the article, strategies for further Internet discourse analysis are developed.
AUTHOR’S VIEW ON CURRENT LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS
Internet, discourse, political discourse, political Internet discourse, gender, politics.
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Concepts VOLUNTEER and VOLUNTEERING: historical context and prospects for development (а linguist approach)
The article presents the etymologic and the linguacultural analysis of concepts VOLUNTEER and VOLUNTEERING. Etymologic analysis of lexeme-identifier a "volunteer" allowed to define the basic stages of acquisition by it connotations taking into account the cultural and historical context of different countries, namely the United States of America, Germany, Ukraine, etc. The influence of social factors on the acquisition of new meanings by the lexeme-identifier, in particular quasi-military, is determined. It is focused on the fact that in the German and East-Slavic language cultures there are two linguistic units to denote a person who performs work for the benefit of others at his own will. On the basis of the analysis of Ukrainian-language sources, the presence of two lexemes with the same meaning has been proven – the borrowing "volunteer", which came into Ukrainian at the end of the 19th century, and the lexeme ohotnyk- to denote civilians who voluntarily performed actions for the benefit of others, but it was lost during the 20th century. It was determined that in the English, German and Ukrainian linguistic cultures, the linguistic unit "volunteer" acquired a civilian/quasi-military meaning and creates an opposition to the unit with a military meaning. The article also considers cases of the language unit "volunteer" usage in the modern information space. The linguistic and cultural analysis of the concepts VOLUNTEER and VOLUNTEERING demonstrated their discourse-creating potential, the gradual expansion of the pragmatic possibilities of their use both at the state level and in interpersonal communications. So, with the development of a civilized society, these concepts acquired new meanings, which are discussed in detail in the article.
concept, volunteer, etymological analysis, lexeme, information space, quasi-military meaning, fake.
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Corpus of perfume and cosmetic goods names and its parameters
The article deals with the perfume and cosmetic name corpus research in the aspect of parametrization in multiaspective and multistructural ways. Multiaspective peculiarities are divided into naming and informational aspects. Multistructural features are reflected in the combination of A-brand (manufacturer), B-basic (individual), C-genitive (article), D-functional-descriptive integrants. The next level of multistructural features is connected with the combination of integrants into bigger structures, they are integrators. They are associated within the huge article unit name corpus. The corpus itself consists of such semantic components as quantificators, qualificators, determinatives. Naming integrator corpus provides the discrimination of article units, and demonstrates the involvement of naming devices and some shade of social stratification. Involvement of naming register is reflected in the corpus too. Article units are associated with their naming integrators. In the process of research there were two stages of selection. The primary stage identified 54 classes of goods. The secondary one identified 13 leading classes of olfactory and colouring goods. Parameters which are identified in the process of parametrization may be qualitative and quantitative in their mutual functioning and correlation. Quality and quantity are reflected in goods types, naming devices, naming register. The goods name corpus is a stock of information, knowledge about article units. The informational nucleus is created with two subgroups. The first subgroup represents some information about olfactory, aroma, fragrance, odour. The second one contains some information about optical effect, colouring, tinting, masking.
article unit, integrant, integrator, name corpus, parametrization.
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Anaplasia reflection in the future tense formation of the germanic languages
The purpose of this article is to separate grammatical structures that demonstrate the development of the future tense forms in the Germanic languages. The first step of research includes the identification of word forms for temporal description. Gradual identification of primitive analytical forms gives the possibility of tracing the gradual analytisation of the corresponding word combinations and their further transformation into stable analytical verb structures. Finding out latent features helps to recognize differentiated grammatical forms that are used to create and build the set of the formal Germanic future tense structures. The subject of the research is the components used to form temporal verb forms that project the action into the future. The Gothic language, which is understood as the initial, primary stage for the research, used forms of the present tense to describe the future action involving a phrase or an upper phrase context. Within the present tense forms a prefixal word-formation model was found. The Gothic optative was involved to render the future tense. The weak models of Gothic analytisation are connected with the infinitive phrase and auxiliary verb haban. Combination of auxiliary verbs with verbals (infinitive or participle I) were found in the North and West Germanic languages. These verb combinations involved a very restricted set of notional verbs used in two verbal forms. The first element of the phrase that falls under the process of future grammaticalization was preterite-present verbs, inchoative and some durative verbs. Stability of primary analytical temporal forms was created by using only two variants of verbals (infinitive or participle I). The first component of analytical temporal forms gradually lost its primary lexical meaning through its transformation into the auxiliary element. In the process of further differentiation of the Germanic languages some peculiarities were traced. The German language did not develop individual analytical forms with preterite-present (modal) verbs. Other West Germanic and Scandinavian languages used preterite-present (modal) verbs as a leading mechanism for temporal analytisation. Creation of analytical temporal forms happened within twofold formats.
agenesia, analytical form, anaplasia, preterite-present verb, synthetic form, twofold format.
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Problem of the definition and history of the study of Ukrainian euphony
The article deals with the concept of euphony, euphony definition / euphony in stylistiс. Special attention is paid to the differentiation of concepts and terms the euphony of language and euphony of speech. Such differentiation can have significant methodological meaning, stressing the opposition of paradymatics and syntagmatics. Special attention is paid to the ideas of the Ukrainian linguists about euphony. The article also maintains the notion of euphony elaborated not only by Ukrainian scientists (such as V. Blyznyuk, V. Vashchenko, I. Hanych, S. Dyachuk, I. Ohiyenko, H. Pashkovska, O. Peshkovskii, M. Pylynskyy, P. Tymoshenko, N. Tocka, V. Shyprykevych) but also by Ukrainian writers (for instance, I. Nechuy-Levytskyi). It gives the reader more than century-long history ofUkrainian euphony-studies. As it is shown in this article, euphony is one of the main feature of the Ukrainian language and can be regarded as a key-concept for the self-representation of Ukrainian nation.
euphony, phonetic parameters, universaland ethnically specific factors, the transparency of language.
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The structural and semantic characteristics of the phraseological terminological syntagm in scientific language of modern economics
The article analyzes the structural features of economic terminological syntagm of idiomatic type. The author defined semantic and grammatical modifications in economic terminological syntagm that underlie in their creation. The research shows that terminological word-combinations that appeared as a result of translation from English with the conservation of secondary nomination are selected and analyzed.
metalanguage, terminological syntagm, terminology, secondary nomination, motivation, metaphorization.
Principles of lexicographic representation of neologisms and new phraseological units in mass-media
This article identifies the peculiarities of the lexicographic analysis of new words and phraseological units in the modern Ukrainian mass media, considers the place of media lexicography in modern linguistics and also gives the principles of presentation of new phraseological units in the innovative dictionary entitled "New Media and the Phraseological Units of the Ukrainian Mass Media". The authors also present a detailed description of the dictionary's structure, reveals stages of collection and processing the material and the principles of work with the media texts – printed, digital, advertising and radio genres. Specific attention is paid to the functional principle as the main principle of work with the media texts, since it made possible to monitor the developments in the modern Ukrainian language through mass media. Samples of dictionary articles and the detailed lexicographic descriptions are given. Also the directions of work have been suggested for lexicographists and linguists regarding work with the media texts, collecting and processing the material, which will be the basis for new dictionaries of new lexical and phraseological units.
media lexicography, neologism, media phraseology, the dictionary of neologisms, functional stylistics.
Extralinguistic motivation for the functioning of Ukraine`s image in moderm media
The present article analyzes the internal (national) and external (international) image of Ukraine from a linguistic point of view. The article examines basic communicative functions, correlated with the image of the state, which are distinguished in political science (e.g. identification, idealization, opposition, nominative function, aesthetic function, address function etс. ). The author studies these functions in the projection on the image of Ukraine and reveals that most of the analyzed functions have a common emotive component. The author concludes that medialinguistics as a modern branch of humanitarian knowledge makes it possible to identify the emotive (evaluative) function which is realized in all media texts. The article also deals with investigations of current publications in Ukrainian and foreign media related to the image of Ukraine. The emergence of these publications is connected with the annual Eurovision Song Contest, which this year was held in Kyiv. The primary interest of the given article is the analysis of the principles of creating a high-quality brand of Ukraine that is still the prospect for future research.
media, functions of language in media, emotional-estimated connotations, image, extralinguistic motivation of image.
Periphrasis in the architectonics of media text
The paper focuses on the analysis of the periphrasis in the architectonics of media text. The author points out the functions of periphrases in the media text’s architectonics, in particular highlights functions of periphrasis-title. The research shows that the main functions of periphrases in architectonics of media text are as follows: a) periphrases logically connect parts of the text; b) periphrastic phrases disclose the contents, clarify concepts; c) due to their expressive potential periphrases distinguish accents, tagging the basic contents part of the text; d) periphrases allow fully realize the intention of the author of the material, identify the conceptual direction of the text, giving subjective evaluation, emotionally expressive, aesthetic characteristics of the text. Due to many different views on the definition of architectonic in linguistic studies, there is a problem of distinguishing the concept of "architectonic" and "structure" of the text. The author pays much attention to the peculiarities of architectonics of media text.
periphrasis, functions of periphrasis, architectonics, structure of the text, mediastyle.
Mass-media as a source of new phraseology in modern Ukrainian literary language
The article is focused on the role of mass media in updating of modern Ukrainian language. Mass media of various types – printed, digital and advertising - have become the basis of the research. The author presents a comprehensive analysis of extra- and intralingual characteristics which influence on the phraseological systems' update. The following issues have been considered in the article: linguistic imperialism, theory of linguistic economy, world globalization processes, rise of new platforms which influence on innovative processes. Based on the collected material, the author suggests a classification of new phraseological units depending on frequency of their usage in the media. It has been proved that creation of new phraseological units in the mass media is connected with their key functions, namely to inform the recipient and influence on him, name and construe new phenomena and create a verbalized image by different stylistic tools.
phraseological innovation, medialinguistic analysis, mass media phraseological unit, mass media language, medialinguistics.
Axiological dimensions of the Bible concept HUMILITY in Ukrainian political media discourse
The article analyses the evaluation of the concept HUMILITY in the Ukrainian political media discourse with the particular focus on comparative investigation of the "humility words" semantics, based on the religious and political publications of the internet portals "Dzerkalo tyzhnja", "Ukrajinskyj Tyzhden", "Ukrajinska Pravda", "Gazeta po-ukrajinsky" and "Viche". It is established that Christian value of humility acquires ambiguous evaluative semantics in the modern media discourse. It is demonstrated that the words of humility are mostly used with negative connotations in political media texts. Particularly, the word "humble" is shown to have the following meanings as "weak", "inactive", "passive", "compliant", "weak-willed", "powerless". It is noted that the words of humility may be used as one of the means of hierarchs' discrediting for their outward humility. It is also revealed that the word "humility" acquires positive evaluative semantics when used to convey the meanings "not overestimating one's accomplishments and abilities", "not exaggerating one's traits", "adequate self-assessment", "restrain of one's ambitions", "avoidance of arrogance and boastfulness".
political media discourse, axiology, concept, humility, values, category of evaluation.
Precedent cultural nomens of culture in Ukrainian media
The article is devoted to the investigation of one of the aspects of the precedent cultural nomens’ in the media text linguistic analysis. The author analyzes the thesis of the plurality of special interpretations of precedent phenomena conditioned by their nature. Also the attention is paid to the textual interpretation of the represented in the text of Yuri Makarov Taras Shevchenko name which is precedent for the mass cultural consciousness of Ukrainians.
precedent cultural nomens, author's interpretation, mass cultural consciousness, media text, structural antithesis.
Folklore formulae of Ukrainian wedding songs’ texts
The present article researches the functioning of the formulaic diction in the Ukrainian wedding songs’ texts. It investigates the underlying mythological and ritual basis that caused the emergence of the textual component as it preserved in contemporary Ukrainian folklore. Textual sources analyzed in the article are the most relevant for the purposes of the current investigation as they were transcribed immediately from the alive performance as early as in the XIX century by prominent pioneers of scientific folkloristic and ethnography Zorian Dolenga-Chodakowky, Stepan Rudansky and others. The notion of formulae accepted in the present study regards the formula as any word or words’ combination that has stable mythological and ritual meaning and is common in the poetical diction of certain nation. Thus a series of poetical formulae were discovered in the texts of the Ukrianian traditional wedding songs. They concern mainly the following thematic groups: people, human body parts, birds of the upper world, animals of the middle world, animal of the nether world, natural objects, and artificial objects (many of the latter execute special symbolic functions in the wedding rite itself).
Ukrainian language, Ukrainian folklore, formula, wedding, song, rite
The language and stylistic peculiarities of polemical texts of Ipatii Potii and Ivan Vyshenskii in the scientific interpretation of I. Franko
In this article the language and stylistic peculiarities of works of Ivan Vyhenskii and Ipatii Potii in the scientific interpretation of Ivan Franko are investigated. The formation of Ukrainian polemic and publicistic style by authors is analyzed. The main features of the style of the writers are defined. The specific features of the main works of Ipatii Potii and Ivan Vyshenskij in the context of the epoch of Ukrainian literature Baroque in general and polemic literature partly are analyzed. It is represented the author vision of the main language and stylistic features of texts by Ipatii Potii behind Union and works of Ivan Vyshenskij against Union. It is underlined that Ivan Vyshenskii was the first writer who wrote in Ukrainian language. He founded the epoch of Baroque in the Ukrainian literature.
style, polemic and publicistic style, polemic literature, Ipatii Potii, Ivan Vyshenskii, Ivan Franko, Baroque.
The category of image in modern humanities: the problem and its scientific discourses
The given article analyzes various approaches to the interpretation of the category of image in modern humanities and social sciences (e.g. politology, economics, culturology, journalism etc.). However, it is stressed that in terms of linguistics the phenomenon of image is insufficiently researched. Thus, the author notes that in linguistic discourse the category of image should be studied within the framework of a new direction of linguistic studies which is currently at the stage of forming – lingvoimageology. The primary interest of lingvoimageology is the study of linguistic mechanisms of image making. The author comes to the conclusion that in modern scientific discourse lingvoimageology is one of the most topical and promising branches of world neolinguistics.
the category of image, image making, linguistic mechanisms of image making, lingvoimageology.
Functional and stylistic paradigm of media phraseology
The article gives a detailed analysis of stylistic parameters and criteria of media phraseology with regard to their functional potential in different types of communication. The author considers media phraseologism as a special verbal marker of modern society and defines the criteria of scientific analysis of phraseologism in mass media. In scientific analysis the author focuses his attention on the types of media phraseology and provides mechanisms for the functioning of traditional (usual), stylistically transformed and idiomatically new phraseologism in mass communication. On the basis of the medialinguistic view on phraseologism as the universum of media text new requirements for describing the functional potential of these linguistic units in media texts are proposed. Thus, functional-stylistic approach to the analysis of media phraseology determines the prospects for its scientific description and further linguapragmatics in various types of media communication. The article raises scientific problems concerning the analysis of media phraseology, the solution of which is possible with the help of the functional-stylistic approach.
mass media phraseological unit, mass media language, medialinguistics, medialinguistican alysis.
Manipulative techniques in Ukrainian religious media discourse
The article analyses communicative strategies in the Ukrainian interconfessional media discourse with the particular focus on investigation of the manipulative techniques, based on publications of the religious internet portals "Religijno-informatsijna sluzhba Ukrajiny", "Katolytskyj ogljadach" and "Religija v Ukrajini". It is established that the texts dealing with interconfessional questions resort to manipulative techniques with the purpose of making the audience take a particular viewpoint to important issues in the field of interconfessional relations, as well as with the purpose of presenting the self in favorable light and discrediting ideological opponents. It is also revealed that the most common manipulative techniques, used in the Ukrainian interconfessional media discourse, are name-calling, misuse of concepts, appealing to ideological mythologems, black-white depiction and the use of emotional appeals. It is demonstrated that the ideological mythologems "Russian world", ''Post-Christian Europe", ''Saint Rus", "Godless West", "holy war", "defense of Christians" are used with negative connotations in the Ukrainian interconfessional media texts as means of communicative strategy of opponents’ discrediting.
religious media discourse, manipulative strategies, name calling, ideological mythologems, interconfessional dialogue.
Stylistic resource of creolization in modern mass-media
he author analyzes stylistic resource and potential of creolization in modern mass media. Approaches to the scientific interpretation of the phenomenon in the paradigm of communicative linguistics, functional stylistics are considered. The intra- and extralinguistic factors that actualize the means of creolization in modern media-media communication are taken into consideration. The author proposes to interpret partial and associative types of media creolization, which determine the dominant verbal / nonverbal components in media texts. The functional potential of means of creolization of the media language, aimed at informing, analyzing and influencing the language consciousness of the mass audience is also determined.
creolization, mass media style, stylistic resource, semantic field.
Intertextuality in media texts of genre of interview with politics. Article 1
The article deals with modern interviews with Ukrainian politicians from the point of view of the existence of precedent intertexts and their functions. Intertextuality induces the recipient to thinking activity: to determine the existence of an intertextual text, to identify it, to understand the newly created meaning, to evaluate it, to perceive / not to perceive, that is, to compare with the values’ scale and possible intellectual compromise with the world's reflection and the pragmatic purpose of the author. The basic groups of precedent phenomena are defined: precedent texts and precedent situations, which are analyzed in more detail, precedent names, precedent statements. The main sources of precedent texts in interviews with politicians are legislative documents that are logical from the point of view and the thematic specifics of texts and communicative strategies in the media representatives of the political community. In the analyzed interviews precedent scenarios are presented through direct nominations and indirectly through the description of phenomena, facts, details that are associated for most respondents with a particular situation, with a certain emotional / evaluative attitude that the communicants support or attempt through comments, refinements, refutation, ridiculing, etc. change to the opposite, ie to form strategically defined beliefs.
ntertextuality, intertext, precedent text, political text, interview, influence, persuasion.
Modern directions of contemporary linguistics: functional context
The article is devoted to the analysis and differentiation of the concepts «modern linguistics» and «neolinguistics» in philology. It is stated that the defined notions are unclearly represented in modern science and require additional argumentation by the chronology and content of new ideas, concepts and theories. The thesis about special social, cognitive and civilizational status of the neolinguistic directions of knowledge, their prospects in a person’s intellectual activity is being argued. The author’s attention is focused on the integral nature of the modern directions of linguistics, which corresponds to the development tendencies of science and its social functions. The overview of separate structural subdivisions, specialties and specializations, tendencies of development of new directions of linguistic science in the leading universities of the world is offered. Information on the establishment of the medialinguistic commission of the International Committee of Slavists, an authoritative international organization of modern researchers in the humanities, is provided. It is postulated that the idea of changing the structural-functional paradigm of the 20th century on the cognitive-communicative paradigm of the 21st century requires additional argumentation.
modern linguistics, modernism, neolinguistics, media linguistics, legal linguistics, cognitive-communicative paradigm, structural-functional paradigm.
Taxonomy of imperative in religious discourse
The article is devoted to religious discourse, which is the most specific and complex manifestation of communication units, in which linguistic laws operate according to semantic significance and pragmatically reflect unconventional correlations between morphological and syntactic grammatical categories; critical evaluation of linguopragmatic discursive theoretical studies was carried out; the questions of the modal correlation of reality and assertion in linguistics are covered; imperative as a grammatical category of the verb hasn’t only a predicative character, but also a modal which in religious discourse is represented by an opposite vector of functioning, in comparison with the classical modal split according to the types of relation to reality and modal values ​​through the prism of the category of “speaker's sight”; it is emphasized that the pragmatism of the referencing mechanism in combination with the logical-philosophical approach to understanding the imperative shades of modality are the main means of their functional-semantic analysis and definition in religious discourse; it’s noted that in religious discourse modality is based on the own plot structure of the institution, which is expressed through the pragmatic goal and it’s imperative realization, which ideally creates God and passes through the preacher to the addressee; modal shades of the ordering method in the religious environment are defined; imperative modal shades are differentiated according to the logical and intuitive perception of the religious texts of the researcher due to the force of evading the desired action by the addressee; the religious taxonomy of the imperative based on the principle of physical dispersion of light on the 7 basic spectra is created (order, prohibition, prompt, request, exhort, caveat, prevent, advice, wishes), the combination of which is formed by the strongest core imperative – an order (the least desirable for the fulfillment of the imperative action in greetings , and the biggest one - in prohibition); the absence of the notion of “order” in religious discourse is substantiated; peripheral imperative spectra provided a conceptual essence.
LINGUISTIC ASPECTOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE
discourse analysis, order, prohibition, prompting, request, exhort, caveat, prevent, advice, wishes.
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Biblical conceptual sphere as a concept of Taras Shevchenko's idiostyle and its reverbalization in Ukrainian bible translations
The article elaborates the analysis of Ukrainian translations of the Holy Scripture through the prism of Shevchenko’s metabiblical images. Biblical conceptual sphere is defined as a fragment of biblical picture of the world shaped on the basis of Old Hebrew, less frequently Old Greek imagery and represented by the totality of concepts which are connected through overlapping, interrelation, hierarchy and opposition and are thematically grouped. Verbalizers of biblical concepts contain the complex accumulation of senses reflecting correlations between God and people through specific world perception of ancient Hebrews. The mediating link between the Bible prototext and biblical metatexts is created by national translations of the Holy Scripture that shape national biblical conceptual spheres via multiple deviations of the Hebrew and Greek sources. The deviations affect national phraseology as well as individual authors’ interpretations of the Book of Books. Special attention is devoted to recursive deviation which manifests itself when a national biblical conceptual sphere and even national translations of the Bible contain elements of authors’ biblical intertexts. Taras Shevchenko’s poetry is viewed as the primary Ukrainian recursive biblical intertext. His idiostyle is characterized by the verbalization of biblical concepts through overlapping biblical and nationally-bound senses. Metabiblical images of Shevchenko’s idiostyle are tracked down to the Bible translation done by I. Khomenko and edited by I. Kostetskyij and V. Barka. The editors who represented the baroque tradition of the Ukrainian translation domesticated Khomenko’s version and introduced into it elements of the Ukrainian metabiblical conceptual sphere, predominantly Shevchenko’s metabiblical images. I. Khomenko himself did not approve of this strategy and regarded it as a violation of the Word of God. Yet the monastic order of St. Basil the Great that commissioned this translation did not consult the translator before publishing its edited version. Similar domesticating strategy is observed in the first Ukrainian complete translation of the Bible done by P. Kulish, I. Puluj, and I. Nechuj-Levycjkyj in 1903. Shevchenko’s influence is particularly felt in epithets specifying key biblical images, such as enemy (лютий / fierce) and heart (тихе / meek). Though each book of the Holy Scripture in this translation is ascribed to only one translator of the three it seems logical to surmise that P. Kulish, the founder of the baroque translation tradition in Ukraine, was the first to draw images from Shevchenko’s metabiblical conceptual sphere. The article postulates the necessity to perceive Shevchenko’s poetry as a complete Biblical intertext which not only interprets national biblical canon but also generates it.
biblical conceptual sphere, recursive deviation, metabiblical images, verbalization of biblical concepts, domestication.