Alla Oleksiіvna Varlamova, allavarlamova11@gmail.com
Senior Lecturer
Military Academy (Odessa)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/StudLing2024.24.9-16
ABSTRACT
This article is devoted to English-language media publications written during the war between Ukraine with the terrorist country Russia. The article used materials from well-known English-language newspapers and Internet resources, such as The Economist, The Times, BBC News, The Sun, Voice of America, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Le Monde and many others. This paper examines syntactic, morphological, lexical and a variety of stylistic features of newspaper articles and wartime headlines, such as passive constructions, ellipsis, impersonal sentences, metonymy, epithet, metaphor, and comparison. How did the authors’ style and the linguistic means they use change? How did the war affect the expressiveness, emotionality, richness of the newspaper style vocabulary? Foreign journalists also often use words that appeared in Ukraine during the war as neologisms. For example, the name of the city of Bucha became a symbol of cruelty, violence and atrocities of Russian soldiers. We can meet such words as orcs, denazification, rashism, Bayraktar, “As I read about Irpin, about Bucha, about Trostyanets, of the bodies crushed by tanks, of the bicyclists shot on the street, of the desecrated corpses, there it was, “rashism” again and again, in comments sections, in social media, even in the official pronouncements of the Ukrainian state.” zombification and many others. What responses do they evoke in the reader’s soul? (From The Times Magazine).
Keywords: foreign press, language means, war, expressiveness, metaphor, epithet, comparison, metonymy.
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