EMOTIONAL AND SEMANTIC DOMINANT IN THE POETRY OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN JOINT FORCES OPERATION

Abstract

The aim of this article is to identify the emotional and semantic dominant in the poetry of the participants in the Joint Forces Operation. Materials & Methods. The study is carried out from the standpoint of a comprehensive psycholinguistic approach based on the integration of discourse analysis and psychoanalytic interpretation. To recognize the emotional and semantic dominant in the poetry of the participants in the Joint Forces Operation, the basic emotion theory is important. Decomposing complex emotions into simpler pieces of basic emotions makes it possible to determine the emotional and semantic dominant of a text. Materials to conduct this research are poetry of the participants in the Joint Forces Operation that is posted on Facebook social media accounts “Poems of ATO. Soldier”, “Songs created in the zone of Anti-Terrorist Operation”. Results & discussions. The poetry is characterized by paired combinations of the emotion of anger with emotions of fear, disgust, sadness, grief and joy. Anger also becomes the main element of complex emotions consisting of several components. The semantic dominant in the poetry from the perspective of the emotion of anger can be expressed as “I hate war”. Expression of intensity of combatants’ suffering is achieved in poetry by conveying sthenic emotion resulting in increased activity, which we denote as grief, and asthenic emotion which doesn’t encourage further action, which we denote as sadness. The semantic dominant in the poetry from the perspective of grief and sadness can be considered as a cry for help. Emotion of fear in the poetry can be associated with the emergence of “existential anxiety”, a core of which lies in a person’s perception of the threat of non-being (mortality). In the poetry the emotion of fear often adjoins the emotion of guilt. The semantic dominant in the poetry from the perspective of the emotions of fear and guilt is understanding of death and immortality in the philosophical and religious context. In contrast to negative emotions associated with the past or present, the emotion of joy refers to the future tense. The semantic dominant in the poetry from the perspective of the emotion of joy is the idea of peace. Conclusions. Basic emotions of anger, grief, sadness prevail in the poetry of the participants in the Joint Forces Operation. However, any emotion is not in its own right, it exists in manifold combinations with other basic emotions creating different conglomerates. The general semantic dominant in the poetry of the participants in the Joint Forces Operation is “No to war”.