Semantic­stylistic oppositions in recent texts of jokes on the topic of war

Abstract

It was concluded that the genre of anecdote is, in modern conditions, a generalized designation of humorous, ironic, contemptuously insulting, parodic works, which are equal to everyday mini-dialogue or an extended book expression. The article analyzes the texts of the latest anecdotes from the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which intensified from February 2022. The specifics of the specified genre are determined. The linguistic content of these texts is characterized in accordance with the defined end-to-end conceptual oppositions "own - foreign", "we - them". The research was conducted from the point of view of the semantic and stylistic content of the mentioned oppositions, their verbalizations in certain lexical units. As a result, the key nominations related to the theme of war were determined, among them semantic and word-forming innovations, the prevalence of occasional names with a predominantly negative axiology were indicated. The stylistic and semantic functions of proper and common names are differentiated, the phenomenon of loss of onymic semantics by proper names is traced. The prospects for the study of anecdotes on the topic of war are connected with the observation of the semantic and stylistic content of the texts of different periods of the Russia-Ukraine war, the analysis of the role of idioms in the creation of irony, oral and conversational communicative and pragmatic situations of the period of martial law, the evaluation of the mental traits of Ukrainians and others peoples or their representatives, etc.