{"id":13324,"date":"2026-07-08T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/?page_id=13324"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:40:28","slug":"ua-verbalizatsiya-kontseptu-svij-chuzhyj-u-suchasnij-ukrayinskij-poeziyi-pro-vijnu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/vypusky-zhurnalu\/2026-2\/ua-zbirnyk-kultura-slova-104-2026-en-journal-culture-of-the-word-104-2026\/ua-verbalizatsiya-kontseptu-svij-chuzhyj-u-suchasnij-ukrayinskij-poeziyi-pro-vijnu.html","title":{"rendered":"VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT \u201cOWN\u201d \/ \u201cALIEN\u201d IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN POETRY ABOUT THE WAR"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n

Liudmyla YULDASHEVA<\/strong>,
\nCandidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor,
\nDoctoral Candidate, Department of Ukrainian Linguistics and Applied Linguistics,
\nBohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy;
\n81 Shevchenko Boulevard, Cherkasy 18031, Ukraine;
\ne-mail: 1alimduyl@gmail.com
\nORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6561-8827<\/p>\n

Heading<\/strong>: WORD IN ART WORK
\nLanguage<\/strong>: Ukrainian<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>
\nThe article conducts a linguistic analysis of the verbalization of the conceptual opposition \u201cown\u201d \/ \u201calien\u201d in contemporary Ukrainian war poetry. It demonstrates that in the conditions of wartime discourse, this dichotomy shifts from a background cognitive model to the status of a semantic and axiological center of the text, determining the principles of imagery organization, subject identification, and linguistic evaluation. The \u201cown\u201d \/ \u201calien\u201d opposition is considered a universal mechanism for categorizing social experience, which, in war-period poetic language, gains particular interpretive and text-forming activity. The key lexical-semantic strategies for representing the \u201cown\u201d and \u201calien\u201d are analyzed: identification nominations, spatial-geographical markers, axiologically loaded vocabulary, sacralization of the image of the defender, and demonization of the image of the enemy, zoomorphic and apocalyptic metaphors, dehumanization models, and symbolic elevation. Particular attention is paid to the dynamic nature of the boundary between \u201cown\u201d and \u201calien\u201d, which in contemporary poetry is defined not only by belonging but also by ethical stance, behavior, and forms of participation or withdrawal. It is shown that the linguistic means of realizing this opposition form a distinctly polarized picture of the world, in which poetic language performs the function of value-based structuring of wartime experience. The research material consisted of texts of contemporary poetic works about the war, collected from open digital sources \u2013 primarily from social media such as Instagram and Facebook, where modern wartime poetry is actively present. Methods of lexical-semantic, contextual-interpretative, and discourse analysis were applied.
\nKey words<\/strong>: war poetic discourse, \u201cown\u201d \/ \u201calien\u201d opposition, verbalization, axiology, identity, lexical-semantic markers, sacralization, demonization.<\/p>\n

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LEGEND<\/strong>
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  Liudmyla YULDASHEVA, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Ukrainian Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy; 81 Shevchenko Boulevard, Cherkasy 18031, Ukraine; e-mail: 1alimduyl@gmail.com ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6561-8827 Heading: WORD IN ART WORK Language: Ukrainian Abstract The article conducts a linguistic analysis of the verbalization of the conceptual opposition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":13298,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-doi.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13324","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=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13405,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13324\/revisions\/13405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}