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In:Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse
Edited by Anastasios Vogiatzis
[Figurative Thought and Language 22] 2027
► pp. 244–269

Chapter 11
Ukrainian war discourse

An idea-turned-effect analysis

 | Kyiv National Linguistic University
 | Kyiv National Linguistic University
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Abstract
The proposed idea-turned-effect analysis applies the cognitive structures comprising image schemas, force dynamics and metaphoric schemas to revealing how the views articulated in the news, public or creative variants of Ukrainian war discourse are supposed to transform into corresponding effects. It is found that after two years of the Russia-Ukraine full-fledged war the news discourse creates three confrontational effects: narrow, covering the latest two years; broad, spanning the whole of ten years of the conflict; medium, contrasting the two years to ten. The public discourse of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy forms resistance, confrontational, and victory effects. The creative discourse comprising books, poems and songs mainly rests on metaphoric effects conceptualizing the war as an unlawful and deadly invasion, destruction, devastation and an overall confrontation.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The idea-turned-effect methodology
  • 3.War effects in the news, public, and creative variants of Ukrainian war discourse
    • 3.1News effects after two years of a full-fledged war
      • 3.1.1The broad confrontational effect
      • 3.1.2The medium confrontational effect
      • 3.1.3The narrow confrontational effects and blaming the counterforce source
    • 3.2Public discourse effects within two years of the war
      • 3.2.1The mental victory effect
      • 3.2.2The confrontational and resistance effects
      • 3.2.3The absolute victory effect
    • 3.3Creative discourse effects within two years of the war
      • 3.3.1The effect of an unlawful deadly invasion
      • 3.3.2The effects of destruction
      • 3.3.3The effect of devastation
      • 3.3.4The overall effect
  • 4.Conclusion and discussion
  • References
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