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

  • Authors

    • Nataliia Kostusiak Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine
    • Olha Kyryliuk Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University, Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
    • Yurii Mytrofanenko Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University, Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
    • Larysa Hromyk Higher educational institution “Рodillia State University”, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
    • Tetyana Kozlova Zaporizhzhia National University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
    • Olha Shumenko Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
    https://doi.org/10.14419/15s6yq62

    Received date: June 9, 2025

    Accepted date: July 4, 2025

    Published date: July 15, 2025

  • Historical Narrative; Lexeme; Linguistic-Cognitive and Modal-Pragmatic Interpretation; Nominative Model; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistic ‎Aspect; Russo-Ukrainian War

  • 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.

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    Kostusiak , N. ., Kyryliuk, O. . ., Mytrofanenko , Y. ., Hromyk , L. ., Kozlova, T. . ., & Shumenko, O. . (2025). Nominative Models of Ending The Russo-Ukrainian War: Linguistic-Cognitive and Modal-Pragmatic Interpretation. International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 14(3), 64-71. https://doi.org/10.14419/15s6yq62