2021, Volume 18, Issue 1
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Valery A. Amirov Functional Features of Onomastic Units in the Military Discourse of the Donbass Conflict
Voprosy onomastiki, 2021, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 237–250 (in Russian) Received on 11 December 2019 Abstract: The article explores the modalities and features of onomastic units in the media coverage of the Eastern Ukraine military conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Based on large empirical data of printed and online publications in Russian and Ukrainian media reporting on the hostilities in Donbass extensively for several years, the author has collected, classified, and analyzed the corpus of onomastic units of the military media discourse. These include place names, such as Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Luganda, Donbabwe, Debaltsevo pocket, Ilovaysk pocket, ORDLO (“separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”), Novorossiya, “Odessa Khatyn,” as well as the nicknames of field commanders that have become deeply associated with the conflict — Motorola, Bes, Givi. The study examines functional aspects of proper names usage in the media, and their role in shaping a general picture of the Donbass armed conflict for the readers. A special emphasis is made on the weight of onomastic units (militaronyms, toponyms, and anthroponyms) as constructive elements of the military discourse in Eastern Ukraine. In this regard, the presented analysis and its results can contribute to further studies of the media discourse related to armed conflicts of various etiologies and intensities. Keywords: war, armed conflict, journalism, mass media, military discourse, militaronyms, chrononyms, place names, personal names. References Chernysheva, A. Yu. (2018). Voennyi reportazh kak spetsificheskii diskurs SMI [War Reporting as a Specific Media Discourse]. Izvestiia Yuzhnogo federal’nogo universiteta. Filologicheskie nauki, 2, 67–74. Fateeva, N. A. (2018). Nazvaniia voennykh sobytii kak osobyi klass khrononimov [Names of Military Events as a Special Class of Chrononyms]. Vestnik Voronezhskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ser. “Filologiia. Zhurnalistika”, 2, 57–59. Karasik, V. I. (2000). O tipakh diskursa [On the Types of Discourse]. In V. I. Karasik, & G. G. Slyshkin (Eds.), Yazykovaia lichnost’: institutsional’nyi i personal’nyi diskurs [Linguage Personality: Institutional and Personal Discourse] (pp. 5–20). Volgograd: Peremena. Lakoff , G. (1991). Metaphor and War. The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf. Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, 2(1), 59–72. Lakoff , G. (2004). Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing. Olianich, A. V. (2003). Prezentatsionnye strategii v voenno-politicheskom diskurse [Presentation Strategies in Military-Political Discourse]. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ser. 2, 3, 121–128. Tatarnikova, N. M. (2012). Analiz kommunikativnykh strategii kak sposob izucheniia stilevoi cherty [Analysis of Communication Strategies as an Approach to the Study of Style]. Filologiia i chelovek, 1, 84–95. Ulanov, A. V. (2014). Russkii voennyi diskurs XIX — nachala XX veka: struktura, spetsifika, evoliutsiia [Russian Military Discourse of the 19th — Early 20th Centuries: Structure, Specificity, Evolution] (Habilitation dissertation). Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk. |
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