Nominative Models of Ending The Russo-Ukrainian War: Linguistic-Cognitive and Modal-Pragmatic Interpretation

Abstract

The article describes language models that explicate the end of war. The analysis of the key lexemes ‘victory’, ‘negotiations’ in the linguistic-cognitive and modal- pragmatic plan, as well as with the involvement of psycho- and sociolinguistic aspects, made it possible to outline their functional potential, which consists in constructing statements of moral and ethical content, expressing emotional and evaluative shades, and exerting a manipulative influence on readers. In the context of social factors, the compound Victory plan is characterized as the name of a document that accumulates the strategic principles of ending the war and achieving peace on fair terms. The functional parameters of the concept of victory, which is considered in the context of propaganda historical narratives, are investigated. The specifics of secondary nominations that arose because of the action of social factors are clarified. Focusing on the syntactic features of statements with the nominations victory, negotiations became a prerequisite for distinguishing the constructions of the narrative and interrogative modality. The sphere of the former includes heading sentences with the separating conjunction or, which combines nominations that are unexpected in terms of content parameters, but are endowed with a deep cognitive essence, which often express the message. The effect of intrigue and semantic uncertainty is inherent in statements of the interrogative modality, which play an important role in the implementation of the author’s communicative and pragmatic tasks, prompting the reader to reflect and evaluate the described situation. Attention is focused on stylistically reduced vocabulary and words that have undergone an expansion of the semantic structure and represent interthematic transitions. It is noted that they violate the canons of newspaper journalism, but give the statements shockingness, expressiveness, and a sarcastic flavor.