Published : 2024-09-18

Words as Opposition to Russian False Simulation Technologies (Based on Ukrainian Dictionaries of New Words and Meanings)

Abstract

The paper displays the potential of Ukrainians’ linguistic creativity in modeling opposition to Russia’s propaganda, ideological mythologies through the use of appropriate anti-propaganda, anti-manipulatives, a system of axiologically marked meanings with the aim of debunking and discrediting ideologically hostile pseudo-theories. The means of this counteraction are neologisms, occasionalisms, word formation (in particular, productive – types of a morphological method and a composition method, as well as non-productive – a fusion method, borrowings within a calque technique, macaronization, and barbarization), expressive conjugation, a system of tropes and figures, a kind of ornamentation, precedent, language norm violations, in particular orthographic and graphic, which is modelled by means of manifesting the ideological language game. The consequence of such linguistic creativity is semantic-pragmatic creative meanings, connotations, stylistics of ironic, contemptuous, sarcastic, mocking tonality, feelings and emotions verbalization, manifestations of expression. Anti-manipulation verbal technologies as a countermeasure to the enemy’s manipulative strategies are generally designed to form a strategically determined semantic and pragmatic shift, to create recognizable signs of an idea that exists within Ukrainian linguistic culture and Ukrainian society and is perceived as one’s own (national) as opposed to foreign and hostile. The Ukrainians’ linguistic creativity consists in reprogramming the enemy’s ideas, meanings and their profanation.

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axiologically marked meanings, anti-manipulemes, ideological mythologeme, linguistic creativity, manipuleme, language game, occasionalism, neologism



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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