HORIZONS IN STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION RESEARCH IN WARTIME. Review of the monograph: Strategic Communications in Wartime: From Volunteer Experience to Academic Reflection. Ed. by L.F. Kompantseva. Kyiv, 2024.

Kateryna LEVCHENKO,
Doctor of Law, Professor, Government Commissioner for Gender Policy,
Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
12/2 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01008, Ukraine;
e-mail: levchenko@kmu.gov.ua
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8334-7362

Heading: REVIEW
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
This review presents a critical analysis of the collective monograph “Strategic Communications in Wartime: From Volunteer Experience to Academic Reflection” (Kyiv, 2024) as a significant contribution to the development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of interdisciplinary research on strategic communications in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Particular attention is devoted to the chapters examining the linguistic dimensions of this complex research field. The review argues that the monograph develops a coherent conceptual framework for understanding the technological dimension of wartime discourse, in which language functions not only as a means of communication but also as an instrument of cognitive influence, cultural meaning-making, strategic narrative construction, collective identity formation, and the enhancement of national resilience. It traces the internal logic of the contributors’ approaches, progressing from a psycholinguistic analysis of the cognitive mechanisms of linguistic influence through a cultural-semiotic interpretation of the symbolic space of war and a pragmatic-linguistic analysis of strategic communications to a political-linguistic understanding of language security as an integral component of national security. The review demonstrates that, taken together, the studies presented in the monograph establish a new interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of wartime discourse by integrating insights from cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse studies, cultural linguistics, sociolinguistics, and security studies.
Key words: wartime discourse, strategic communications, psycholinguistics, discourse studies, linguoculturology, political linguistics, strategic narratives.

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