DENIAL OF ARMED AGGRESSION IN THE ANTI-STATE DISCOURSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Abstract

The article examines the linguistic means of representing the subcriminal feature "denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine" in anti-state texts on social networks. The study found that the representatives of the "denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine" are multilevel linguistic units: the negative prefix not-, in the semantic structure of which denial is part of a complex meaning; the negative particle not, used to completely deny the content of what is said; negative pronouns; and the negative predicate no. The following explicit means of realizing negation are the most productive in conflict texts: 1) general negative logical and syntactic structures with the negative particle not used in preposition to the main predicative member of a two-part sentence; 2) partially negative logical and syntactic structures with the negative particle not used in preposition to the secondary member of a two-part sentence; 3) logical and syntactic structures with the negative predicate no. The logical operation of negation is most productively realized in the implicit form at the level of a whole sentence or microcontext and is actualized through such semantic plans as the interpretation of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as a special military operation, as an internal civil conflict, as Ukrainian aggression in Donbas, the interpretation of the war as Ukraine's armed aggression, as military exercises, as a war between the United States and Russia, as a war unleashed by a third party, as well as the denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as an unprovoked armed attack by one state against another with the aim of seizing its territory, eliminating or limiting its independence.