ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВЕРБАЛІЗАЦІЇ ІДЕЇ ДЕРЖАВНОСТІ У МАС-МЕДІЙНОМУ ТЕКСТІ (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ ГАЗЕТИ «ТЕРНОПІЛЬ ВЕЧІРНІЙ» В ПЕРІОД СУСПІЛЬНИХ ЗМІН 1990-1991 РОКІВ)

Abstract

In this article, we tracked the peculiarities of the verbalization of the idea of statehood in mass-media text on the material of the newspaper «Ternopil Vechirnii» during the period of social changes of 1990-1991, which look like an evolutionary process, which, however, is not lacking of certain contradictions and drama. The changes in some territories and in some spheres of social life, which began in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1980s, in connection with the «Perestroika» announced by the then General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Gorbachev, in 1990-1991, started gaining uncontrolled by Communist Party character. Baltic republic, Transcaucasia, Moldova and Ukraine, especially its three western regions, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil, belonged to these territories along with the Baltic and Transcaucasian republics. The democratic movement in Western Ukraine, including in the Ternopil region, since 1989, and especially in 1990-1991, was increasingly gaining national color. It couldn’t help being reflected in the print media of the time. This period in the history of the «Ternopil Vechirnii» in particular as well as of the Western Ukrainian press in general can be divided into three stages of transformation: thematic, external transformation and intra-transformation, where each previous stage should be considered as the basis for the next. This continuity has ensured that in just a few years the Ternopil press succeeded in successful overcoming the complete dependence on the Communist Party’s dictates and achieving the true freedom of speech that our press still enjoys today. Verbalization of the idea of statehood was, on the one hand, a reflection of social changes in mass-media texts, and on the other hand, one of the driving forces. Key words: verbalization, statehood, independence, decomunization, transformation.