TRADITIONAL AND NEW LINGUOMENTAL PROFILES OF THE CONCEPT “WAR” IN THE ARTISTIC DISCOURSE OF THE PERIOD OF FULL-SCALE INVASION

Halyna SІUTA,
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Leading Researcher of Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics,
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine;
е-mail: siutagalia@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-1644

Heading: WORD IN ART WORK
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article examines the transformation of Ukrainian artistic consciousness and artistic lingual practice during the period of the full-scale invasion. It demonstrates how the war has fundamentally reshaped the poetic and artistic-publicistic worldview, generating new linguomental profiles of the concept “war.” Special attention is paid to the role of artistic discourse as a highly sensitive indicator of collective experience: it captures shifts in modes of conceptualizing war, the reconfiguration of evaluative dominants, and the emergence of new semantic axes that structure contemporary representations of wartime reality.
The study outlines the growing convergence between artistic consciousness and everyday lingual experience, driven by the rapid militarization of the lexicon, the formation of new semantic relations, and the intensification of emotional and existential components. Artistic language is shown not only to reflect but also to model collective ways of experiencing war – fear, loss, pain, expectation, and hope. Within artistic texts, a renewed conceptual space emerges in which war becomes a central category shaping the architecture of artistic thinking and serving as a key marker of contemporary Ukrainian lingual identity.
The article highlights the significance of artistic practice in registering and interpreting new meanings of war. It analyzes the shift from earlier metaphorical uses toward direct, experience-based representation and identifies the evaluative asymmetry between depictions of war as an aggressive, destructive force and its understanding as a historical trial that consolidates society. It is emphasized that artistic consciousness has become an essential domain for crystallizing memory, experience, and meaning-making under the conditions of wartime reality.
Key words: artistic discourse, Ukrainian lingual consciousness, Ukrainian lingual practice, concept war; linguomental profile.

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