РИТОРИЧНІ ФІГУРИ НА ГЕОПОЛІТИЧНІЙ ШАХІВНИЦІ: ТРОПОЛОГІЧНО-СИМВОЛІЧНІ РЕСУРСИ В АНАЛІЗІ МІЖНАРОДНОГО КОНФЛІКТУ

Abstract

The article studies rhetorical expressive means in the discourses that analyze military-political conflict between Russia and Ukraine within the context of its global hybrid «extension» and the feedback from the international community. It describes various thematic and functional groups of tropes and figures that are instrumental in representation of geostrategic interests and determine the prospect of decision-making and finding solutions to the conflict. The main object of analysis is relationship between selective strategies of the authors that describe scenarios of war and pragmatic objectives of these presentations relating to the their role in information wars and rhetoric of propaganda. The study focuses on explanation of particular tropes in connection to certain fragments of the scenario and also reconstructs the networks of tropes within «pragmatic spheres» that fulfill the task of resisting aggression and countering disinformation. In dealing with linguistic material, the author applies concepts and approaches of cognitive linguistic, in particular the theory of frame as a model of representation and cognitive interpretation of metaphor that explains how tropes conceptualize social knowledge and shape attitudes. The implications of the metaphoric scenarios surrounding the concept of «game» can have either legitimizing or critical practical intention behind the trope. The workings of rhetorical means are shown in relation to different layers and types of power that forms the cumulative potential for the resilience of the state. The article focuses on the synergetic contribution of information, diplomatic, economic, and judicial power into the implementation of the society’s goals in the struggle for independence. It explains how different types of power are accessed from metaphorical perspective and what means they use in the conditions of military mobilization and consolidation of identity. Key words: political discourse in mass media, information war, rhetoric of propaganda, representation of conflict, cognitive scheme, scenario, tropes, figures, conceptual metaphor, euphemisms.