LANGUAGE INNOVATIONS OF RUSSIAN–UKRAINIAN WAR 2022

Abstract

Changes in society and in different areas of human activities, new historical and geopolitical conditions of existence of modern European states bring significant amendments in communicative strategy of speakers, help to appear innovative words and meanings, which reflect new facts of life of society. Social reasons of lingual changes are bound to communicative function of language, to desire to implement own abilities in providing of needs of society in communication, which helps to seek the most useful and semantically full tools of nomination. Newly created words "code" information in different aspects about particularities of life of certain epoch. Their quantity grows in critical moments of development of society, and Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022 became one of them. Innovations in language have collected all specter of emotions of Ukrainian people to invaders, their political assistants in Europe and world and attitude of Ukrainians to impotence and passivity of majority of Russians.Surnames of famous political persons and public figures (макронити, шойгувати, кадирити кімити, арестовлення, байденотерапія, путінферштеєр), their dominant properties (кремлівський терорист, рашистський фюрер, гебіст рашист, путіночет, путлер, лаптенфюрер, хапутін, капутін, пітерський гопник, директор бюро ритуальних послуг, бункерний хробак, кадебістський маніяк), literature characters (орки), Ukrainian toponims (чорнобаїти, начорнобаїти, відірпінити, перегостомелити), borrowing (путінферштеєр, байрактар, джавелін, стінгер) and other words were a motivator of creation of new words. Ukrainians use "language shield" as powerful tool of resistance against invaders, which helps to identify occupants by code words, using well known "shibolet" method, used in military tactic in many states in world.

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