{"id":12727,"date":"2026-02-16T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/?page_id=12727"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:34:51","slug":"movna-pragmatyka-politychnogo-mifu-yak-zhanru-informatsijnogo-spotvorennya-realij-rosijsko-ukrayinskoyi-vijny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/vypusky-zhurnalu\/2025-2\/zbirnyk-kultura-slova-102-2025\/movna-pragmatyka-politychnogo-mifu-yak-zhanru-informatsijnogo-spotvorennya-realij-rosijsko-ukrayinskoyi-vijny.html","title":{"rendered":"LINGUAL PRAGMATICS OF THE POLITICAL MYTH AS A GENRE OF INFORMATIONAL DISTORTION OF THE REALITIES OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n

Lesya FEDORENKO,<\/strong>
\nPostgraduate student,
\nNational Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine;
\n22 M. Maksymovycha St., Kyiv 03066, Ukraine;
\ne-mail: lesyafedorenko@gmail.com
\nORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-3082-3939<\/p>\n

Heading<\/strong>: LANGUAGE OF THE MEDIA
\nLanguage<\/strong>: Ukrainian<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>
\nThe article characterizes the nature and effectiveness of myth as a form of cognitive weaponry and as an instrument of linguo-mental influence on the collective consciousness of society, which is actively employed by the aggressor state to distort information about the causes and events of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is demonstrated that the media use of myths typical of hostile propaganda constitutes a powerful psycholingual technology for activating certain layers of historical memory in the collective consciousness while mentally \u201csuppressing\u201d others. This process is carried out through the manipulative use of a purposefully constructed lexicon (words, expressions, precedent units) and through the construction of texts that serve as manifestations of a distorted reality of war, whereby an imagined reality is produced and patterns of behavior desired by the aggressor are stimulated.
\nThe article analyzes one of the key political myths \u2013 the myth of the \u201crevival of Nazism and fascist ideology in Ukraine,\u201d which Russian propaganda employs to justify aggression. The lingual pragmatics of lexical components, lexico-syntactic structures, and figurative means of mythologizing the discourse of the contemporary Russian-Ukrainian war are traced. It is emphasized that the study of the linguopragmatics of political-myth texts should become part of a demythologization strategy as a means of countering the hostile propaganda of the aggressor in the implementation of information-psychological operations against Ukraine.
\nKey words<\/strong>: myth, political myth, lingual consciousness, lingual pragmatics, lingual manipulation, metaphor, image.<\/p>\n

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  Lesya FEDORENKO, Postgraduate student, National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine; 22 M. Maksymovycha St., Kyiv 03066, Ukraine; e-mail: lesyafedorenko@gmail.com ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-3082-3939 Heading: LANGUAGE OF THE MEDIA Language: Ukrainian Abstract The article characterizes the nature and effectiveness of myth as a form of cognitive weaponry and as an instrument of linguo-mental influence on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":12634,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-doi.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12938,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12727\/revisions\/12938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}