Sphere Of Communication Research Articles

Сложные заимствованные имена существительные и их статус в современной коммуникации

Introduction. The relevance of the problem of the status of foreign-language composites is due to their active borrowing by the Russian language, their use in various spheres of communication and their influence on the wordformation system of the Russian language. They are not always included in the Russian language as compound words. Aim. Determining of the conditions for assigning borrowed nouns to complex words. Methodology and research methods. The main content of the article is the analysis of the adaptation of the components of borrowed complex Anglicisms in modern Russian. The research uses methods of linguistic observation and description, etymological analysis. Results. The conducted research has shown that English compounds can be borrowed as complex words and as simple ones, but as their use grows in various spheres of speech communication, they are usually perceived by communicants as complex words. Their status of complex words is due to the assimilation of components: 1) using as independent words; 2) presence in a number of other loan words; 3) writing with a hyphen; 4) the ability to be the basis stems for creating new Russian words. Scientific novelty. The concept of "complex borrowing" has been clarified and the main conditions of this status have been defined. Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in the practice of compiling dictionaries of foreign words, morphemic and word-formation dictionaries of the Russian language.

Коммуникативный паспорт современного мигранта из Средней Азии

The study is devoted to understanding the communicative behavior of migrant workers from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan who come to the Russian Federation for the purpose of employment. The study is based on the hypothesis that the dominant feature of their communicative behavior is bilingualism, therefore, the concept of "bilingual communicative behavior" of a person is introduced. It is proved that there are different types of bilingualism, among which the bilingualism of migrant workers seems to be poorly studied. In addition, there is no doubt about the proximity of bilingualism and diglossia. However, diglossia, unlike bilingualism, is characteristic of certain social relationships, and bilingualism is a feature of an individual linguistic personality. It has been established that it is bilingualism, or rather, the degree of proficiency in different languages, one of which is native and the second is acquired, that affects the socialization of migrants in the Russian Federation. The proof of this is the analysis of the communicative behavior of migrants in the everyday and institutional spheres of communication. As a result of the observations, it was found that the behavior patterns of people coming to the Russian Federation "for work" have similarities related to their nationality, level of education, spheres of communication, belonging to the post-Soviet space. The most significant is the institutional sphere of communication, which highlights with the greatest clarity the features of the bilingual communicative behavior of migrants from Central Asia, which allow us to talk about the concept of a "communicative migrant passport".

Cyberspace – Threats to Young People and the Family

Cyberspace is an important communication area that can be considered both from the perspective of external and internal (family) communication. One can also look at this space of communication from the perspective of threats and opportunities for the family and young people. The article was based on non-reactive research techniques, mainly on the analysis of existing data. The author, based on the literature on the subject and the results of nationwide research on the use of the Internet by young people (“Teenagers 3.0,” 2021; “Teenagers 3.0,” 2023, “Teenagers towards digital pornography,” 2022 reports. NASK-PIB), raises the issue of threats related to cyberspace in the context of family and family communication. The author also pays attention to the features of virtual communities, presents communication threats related to young people’s entry into the world of the Internet and cyberspace, and points to the challenges that modern families come up against in the face of these threats. The presented research results indicate many discrepancies in how parents and children perceive the rules regarding the use of the Internet and the threats related to cyberspace. In a situation where there is no open communication in the sphere of family communication, problems resulting from young people using the Internet inappropriately are hidden in silence. This poses an important challenge for modern families.

METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF UKRAINE’S STATE INFORMATION POLICY

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the state information policy’s methodological foundations of in Ukraine. It also analyzes current scientific probles. It consists in the state policy’s scientific substantiation of the methodological foundations in the sphere of mass communication in the conditions of social changes in Ukraine. It is substantiated that the improvement of the state information policy in the process of its development and implementation requires taking into account the national cultural identity of the national information space. Without preserving national cultural identity, the integrity and independence of the nation-state become problematic. It was clearly confirmed by the events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, which escalated into a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. It becomes obvious, that without taking into account the cosmopolitan trends of the information society and global culture, there is a threat of the national information space isolation. All of these can cause the displacement to the periphery of the socio-political and economic life of the modern world. At the stage of information warfare the most important task is to use the capabilities of the mass media to mislead a potential enemy, discredit its military-political leadership and leaders, and limit the enemy apos. The same must be done with information and propaganda activities, up to and including organizing an information blockade. A comprehensive analysis of the mass media activities during election campaigns in Ukraine has demonstrated the need for the legislator to define clearly the requirements for the general principles of information support for the electoral process. Without clear criteria for "impartiality", "balance", "completeness" and other concepts, the assessment of election coverage turns into an assessment of the methods used to measure the information activities of the mass media during elections in Ukraine. It has been established that ensuring the right to receive public information from state authorities and other managers of public information is a key principle of state policy. This policy is aimed at increasing the level of transparency and openness of the state activities and local self-government. It also prevents corruption, public participation in state administration and decision-making. These measures require a comprehensive analysis of the latest vectors of the state's information policy implementation, the principles and instruments of ensuring the right of access to public information, (defined by the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information"), and the search for effective mechanisms for its practical implementation.

PRAGMATIC STRATEGIES OF VIRTUAL DISCOURSE

Online discourse is considered to be relatively a new field for researching although it is attracting views of scholars all over the world. It is evident that online discourse merits special attention. Consequently, this paper is devoted to the importance of virtual discourse. Our interest to online discourse was stimulated by pragmatic strategies of adolescent virtual discourse. Thus,this study aims to ascertain pragmatic strategies of virtual discourse. To accomplish this goal the attempts of reviewing discourse, its kinds and pragmatic intentions of communicants of virtual discourse, revealing the phenomenon of virtual language personality in some degree were undertaken. To define the pragmatic strategies of virtual discourse the authors applied to extracts of online Russian speaking adolescent virtual language personality texts. The research methodology is based on traditional linguistic methods, such as observation method, that allowed us to observe online texts from pragmalinguistic point of view, descriptive method, that was helpful in describing the pragmatic intentions of inter-communicants, contextual method, due to which we could see the sphere of communication, componential analysis, that facilitated analyzing the chosen linguistic means,interpretative analysis, which granted to highlight pragmatic strategies, etc. Current paper results in highlighting pragmatic strategies of adolescent virtual discourse analyzing the extracts from Facebook as one genre of virtual communication during winter vocation period. Scientific results of demonstrating pragmatic strategies of adolescent virtual discourse make it practically significant as an auxiliary tool for students, young researchers who are interested in discourse studies.

LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF SPEECH ETIQUETTE IN KAZAKH AND ENGLISH (GENDER SPECIFIC WORDS)

The aim of the present paper is to study the speech etiquette in the Kazakh and English languages from the lingual-cultural viewpoint.A comparative study of gender relations in the linguocultural aspect is one of the promising areas of modern linguistics. Despite the universality of the concepts of “masculinity” and “femininity,” gender relations have a certain national specificity, which is revealed during their comparative analysis. Linguistic and cultural analysis of gender relations in the Kazakh and English languages reveals significant overlap, however, a comparative analysis allows us to judge the differences caused by ethnocultural traditions and the national specifics of the language. The relevance of the study is determined by the lack of comparative works of Kazakh and English speech etiquette. The findings of this study will contribute to theoretical research and practical development in the sphere of intercultural communication. The research is based on some gender studies, normative acts regulating gender linguistic issues, data from statistical studies, explanatory and etymological dictionaries. The sampling method was used for the selection of language material. The methods of analysis and synthesis of theoretical and actual material were applied for data collection. The analysis showed that gender differences in the linguistic culture of Kazakh and English people have a bright national and cultural colour. On the basis of the material collected and analyzed as the main groups of gender related words such words as male and female names of Turkic-speaking peoples, kinship terminology, names containing the word "ul" (English: son) and feminitives in Kazakh culture were identified. The theoretical significance of this study is determined by the development of a linguoculturological direction in comparative studies in relation to the gender related words. The practical significance of the work is that the results obtained can be used in theoretical courses in cultural linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and comparative typology of the Kazakh and English languages.

УСНИЙ АНГЛОМОВНИЙ ДИСКУРС ІТ-ФАХІВЦІВ У КОНТЕКСТІ ФОРМУВАННЯ СТРАТЕГІЧНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТ

The article reveals the features of oral English professional discourse of IT specialists. The strategic competence of future IT specialists is considered as an ability of these specialists to eff ectively apply the formed language knowledge, speech skills and abilities, since eff ective communication and fl exible interaction require the use of the entire linguistic potential of the individual. It has been found that, together with pragmatic, sociocultural and psychological factors, discourse can be considered as a coherent speech aimed at social action and interaction of people. It was found that each speech case within the situations of oral professionally oriented communication of IT specialists covers three dimensions: text (oral, written speech, visual image, or their combination), discursive practice and social practice. In our research, we view communication strategies as means to develop individuals’ speaking skills in English for professional purposes, in the present case – for IT sphere. The analysis of IT specialists’ professional discourse has shown that there is the correlation of IT specialists’ professional roles with the major communicative functions (cognitive, evaluative, social, psychological) of English. According to the criteria of the sphere of communication among the participants of the discourse, scholars defi ne the following types of discourse: everyday, scientifi c, political, religious, business and professional. Linguistic features of oral, professionally oriented communication of IT specialists involve the analysis of vocabulary, grammatical structures, syntax, and the coherence of sentences, with the help of which discourses and genres are realized linguistically. The following linguistic features of the oral professional discourse of IT specialists were highlighted during the study: use of special vocabulary, dominance of certain grammatical structures, use of nicknames, often associated with computer terminology, emotional coloring, and the implementation of communicative strategies and strategies for the use of language, taking into account the rules of etiquette and netiquette. Key words: professional discourse in oral English, strategic competence, communicative competence, professionally oriented oral English-language communication, future IT specialists.

Результаты исследования уровня развития коммуникативной сферы курсантов - будущих психологов органов внутренних дел

The need to improve the development of communication skills and abilities of psychologists in the educational organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is due to the low level of development of the communicative sphere of the personality of graduates. This is confirmed by the empirical research data presented in the article. At the same time, there are no tools for monitoring the development of this area and taking into account the personality characteristics of students in the implementation of the relevant disciplines of the educational program. As practice shows, the educational process is traditionally implemented within the framework of several basic disciplines aimed at developing competencies related to the communicative sphere of personality. At the same time, the initial level of development of communicative abilities and personality traits of students are not taken into account. In addition, the assessment of the development of the graduate's communicative sphere based on the results of the implementation of the relevant disciplines is not carried out. The article proposes an approach to the use of the developed universal scientific and methodological apparatus aimed at the development of psychologists in the process of their professional training by changing their communicative sphere, taking into account the characteristics of their personality.

Онтологическое моделирование как средство семантизации терминологической лексики в процессе обучения иностранному языку специальности

The study provides a rationale for the use of ontological modeling techniques for teaching the language of a specialty to foreign students studying educational programs in Russian. Ontologies of subject areas, defined as conceptualization specifications, are widely used in computational linguistics to create formalized knowledge management systems. In the context of internationalization, globalization and a colossal increase in the volume of industry knowledge, linguaprofessional skills of interlingual modeling and systematization of conceptual areas of various professions should become a basic element of foreign-language professional communicative competence. This study presents the experience of applying linguistic ontological modeling techniques as a means of improving the effectiveness of terminology teaching, in particular, in terms of semantization of terminological units that form the conceptual sphere of professional communication of students in non-linguistic areas of training. In the course of this study, positive experience was accumulated in applying linguistic ontological modeling techniques, proving the feasibility of using ontologies as a means of semantization of industry terminology. In the applied aspect, the approach we propose can be used for ontological modeling of foreign language courses for special purposes, as well as for creating digital didactic products with an extended list of functions that form a linguistic and professional virtual learning environment.

THE PHENOMENON OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION LAW

The purpose of the article is to comprehensively analyze the definition “The Law of the Eurasian Economic Union” and determine its place in the international law system. Research methods: historical-legal, axiological, functional and contextual approaches of comparative legal method, formal-legal method. The authors consider the genesis of Eurasianism as a historical phenomenon and philosophical direction, analyze the law-forming social factors that form the basis for the Eurasian law development. They conclude that Eurasian integration has traditionally been free and legal and the system of Eurasian law is based on the postulates of both Western and Eastern influences. These are the rule of law, collectivism and the priority of natural relations within the group. The law-forming factors that influenced the creation of the EAEU and its law are peculiar and fundamentally different from the factors and prerequisites characteristic of other integration economic formations. The EAEU was created by the states that had previously been part of a single state; its statutory documents, along with taking into account the peculiarities of European law, also took into account the confessional and civilizational identity of Eurasianism. Formally, at this stage of Eurasian integration, the EAEU law is a sub-branch of international economic law and represents a system of principles and norms in the sphere of international communication of Eurasian states, created to regulate public relations on the creation (liquidation) of regional associations, cooperation of a regional association with other international organizations, its participants and structures in the spheres established by EAEU statutes.

METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' STRATEGIC COMPETENCE: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

The article provides methodological recommendations for improving the educational process for the formation of strategic competence for future teachers in the aspect of intercultural communication. The purpose of the training, its content, the approaches on which the appropriate methodology should be based, its stages, the specified means of training and their sources of selection were described. The purpose of training is the formation of a secondary language personality; the content includes substantive and procedural aspects: areas, topics, subtopics, types and styles of communication, situations, problems, linguistic and sociocultural material, non-verbal means of communication, educational and communicative strategies, texts; among the approaches, we distinguish competence, reflexive, linguistic, sociocultural, cognitive, communicative-activity, level approaches; formation of basic intercultural professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers (normative foreign language course); formation of advanced intercultural professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers (variable foreign language courses); formation of highly specialized intercultural professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers (selective specialization courses taught in a foreign language); we recommend video phonograms, phonograms, and texts as teaching aids. We emphasize that it is advisable for future primary school teachers to teach pedagogical discourse, taking into account the personal, public, professional, and educational spheres of communication.

RELIGIOUS VOCABULARY OF EVERYDAY LANGUAGE OF THE ORTHODOX BELIEVERS OF UKRAINE

The article attempts to analyze the interaction of the religious language sphere with the Ukrainian language in the context of the religious discourse. Due to the ability of religious discourse to interact with other types of discourse, the speech activity of Orthodox believers is realized within institutional and personal discourses, the latter of which covers the sphere of interpersonal communication in the context of everyday interactions. The objective of the study is to find out the specifics of the functioning of lexical units expressing religious meanings in everyday language of Orthodox believers of Ukraine. The attributive and modus specificity of language of the religious sphere makes it possible to distinguish the language of religion as a representative of the meaning of the existence of religion and the religious language as the embodiment of manifestations of religion in the socio-cultural context. The religious language, which is objectified in the everyday language of Orthodox believers, includes a set of language units and lexical-semantic constructions peculiar to the church-religious sphere. At the same time, the everyday language of believers is characterized by coexistence of lexical units of sacred and national languages, an appeal to the emotional sphere of believers, and the use of verbal and non-verbal means of communication. The everyday language of Orthodox believers includes theological terms, church Slavonicisms, archaisms, historicisms, borrowed words. It also contains the phenomena of polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, antonymy and acts as an additional means of communication in the context of social interactions.

Using 5G Standards for Smart Healthcare Applications and Designing an Artificial Intelligence‐Based Industry 4.0 Communication System

ABSTRACTThe introduction of Industry 4.0, to improve Internet of Things (IoT) standards, has sparked the creation of 5G, or highly sophisticated wireless networks. There are several barriers standing in the way of 5G green communication systems satisfying the expectations for faster networks, more user capacity, lower resource consumption, and cost‐effectiveness. 5G standards implementation would speed up data transmission and increase the reliability of connected devices for Industry 4.0 applications. The demand for intelligent healthcare systems has increased globally as a result of the introduction of the novel COVID‐19. Designing 5G communication systems presents research problems such as optimizing resource usage, managing mobility, ensuring cost‐efficiency, managing interference, and maximizing spectral efficiency. The fast advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in several domains yields improved performance in contrast to traditional methods. Hence, including AI in 5G standards would enhance performance by catering to diverse end‐user applications. Initially, we provide an overview of concepts such as Industry 4.0, the 5G standard, and recent developments in the sphere of wireless communications in the future. The goal is to use 5G technology to look at current research problems. We present a new architecture for Industry 4.0 and 5G‐compliant smart healthcare systems. We develop and run the proposed model to investigate the current 5G methods using the Network Simulator (NS2). The results of the simulation show that 5G resource management and interference management approaches already in use face challenges including performance trade‐offs.

Value system as a basis for the construction of argumentation of the rhetorical genre

INTRODUCTION. The relevance of the research and its goal are formulated, which is to describe the hierarchy of values that are the basis of rhetorical argumentation and the main tool necessary to obtain the consent of the addressee. The final stage of this hierarchy is to establish the value basis of each rhetorical genre.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The subject of the study is scientific and political discourses, in which the most characteristic types of values are studied at all levels, using comparative, rhetorical and content analysis.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The concept of “value” in the meaning relevant to rhetoric is analyzed. It is established that the value system underlying rhetorical argumentation should be built separately for each type of discourse. It includes five main tiers reflecting the semantic dominants of the corresponding sphere of communication. The first level is occupied by universal values used in all spheres of communication. The second level consists of basic values reflecting the goals of the relevant sphere of public activity (institute). The third level is personal values, reflecting the required model of relations between the participants of communication, necessary for obtaining the planned result. Fourth level describes the values specific to each individual area of the relevant discourse. Finally, the fifth level is genre: here the main value, which is responsible for the unity and effectiveness of each rhetorical genre, is established.CONCLUSION. The interrelation of all levels of the model and the role of each level in obtaining the planned result is shown.

Localisation as Sociocultural Adaptation of Modern Design of Visual Communications

The aim of the article is to ground and formulate the definition of the term “localisation” in design using the example of visual communications. Results. A review of definitions and interpretations of localisation in different scientific and industrial spheres highlights that the term has different semantic meanings. In the sphere of visual communications, the concept appeared in web design, programming interfaces of programmes and games in the context of language, as well as technical, normative (State Standards) and legal parameters. Nowadays, the use of the term has expanded to the majority of graphic design, branding and marketing product. Its content is associated with sociocultural characteristics of the target groups. Interviews conducted with experts in the re-publishing and redesign of English-language books in the Ukrainian language, advertising communications, curatorship in mural placement and social poster display confirm the relevance of the content and design adчaptation to the specifics of target groups. Localisation in design is defined as a strategy in increasing the functional and communicative efficiency of the project through the adaptation of the content and design to the specifics of sociocultural, legislative, technological, geographical and historical conditions of its use within the country, region, etc. Scientific novelty. For the first time in the theory of design, the term “localisation” is grounded and introduced (using the example of visual communications); the specifics of using the concept of “local” in the context of consideration of these phenomena are clarified; the results of interviews of Ukrainian experts with experience in the localisation of visual communications are presented; the necessity in sociocultural adaptation of the content and design of visual communications to the requests of target groups is emphasised. Conclusions. In conditions of globalisation, the significance of localisation of visual communication projects is increasing. Its implementation requires immersion in the local culture and/or close contact with their representatives during the design process. However, the most effective localisation can be carried out directly by a representative of the target group as a carrier of its local culture.

Analysis of the Impact of Digital Communication Tools on Organizational Culture and Communication Effectiveness Within Enterprises

The issue of improving the organizational culture of enterprises is becoming increasingly relevant in light of the need to enhance the effectiveness of human resources policy and employees’ motivation. Being aware of the importance of developing organizational culture and the effectiveness of internal communication, managers of enterprises very rarely have an information basis for a model of their effective construction. The study aims to analyze the current role of digital transformation tools within the communication process to optimize organizational culture and increase communication effectiveness. The research was conducted using the general methods of scientific cognition, in particular, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, abstraction, specification, and formalization. The study identified the potential of digital communication tools for the cultural and communication optimization of companies. The authors have analyzed the factors of insufficiently effective development of organizational culture. The article substantiates the need for the synergy of process, system-behavioral, adaptive-situational, psychodynamic, and competence approaches. The authors have proposed ways of digital transformation of organizational and communication culture. Based on this, the main vectors for optimizing the concept of organizational management of the transformation of the communication sphere of companies have been identified. It has been proved that the conceptual model of an effective organizational culture is based on long-term measures to implement the strategic goals of enterprise development through continuous self-development and continuous improvement of communication skills using modern and innovative digital tools.

Rural anthroponyms in the shchuchin dialect of the Voronezh region

INTRODUCTION. The study is carried out in the context of the anthropocentric paradigm and is devoted to the topic of “Man”. Nickname nominations and their unique characteristics are considered. The relevance of studying the thematic group is associated with the observed processes of decreasing the number of dialect speakers, interest in the study of folk speech and the importance of registering the information available to villagers to build a certain linguistic picture. The aim of the study is to analyze unofficial anthroponyms of the small village of Shchuchye in the Liski district of the Voronezh region, reflected in the local dialect.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The field material is used to study the names of village people, functioning in the sphere of informal communication in the Voronezh dialect. Experimental (survey and observation) and descriptive (description and comparison) linguistic research methods are used.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The rural nomenclature includes groups of nickname units, the classification feature of which is the method of nomination, motivational feature and the nature of the derivative base. The emergence of unofficial anthroponyms is associated with the established norms of village communication. The Shchuchin mosaic of onomastic units includes male, female and family nicknames. Male anthroponyms predominate. It is postulated that productive ways of forming names are suffixal, truncation and substantiation.CONCLUSION. The customs of interpersonal provincial communication are quite strong. The original village nomenclature of the Shchuchintsy, depicted through folk speech combining southern Russian and Ukrainian features, is presented by 100 nickname units and represented by 21 groups. It demonstrates the original linguistic imagination of rural residents and is important not only for the dialectal anthroponymy of the 21st century, but also for Russian onomastics in general. The study may be continued by features reflecting other characteristics of unofficial names and their motivational features.

Adopsi anak melalui komunikasi keluarga: Sebuah Tinjauan Pustaka Sistematis

Background: Domestic adoption of children can provide an opportunity to improve the welfare of children who have no family or are abandoned. Findings: Communication that occurs in the family is a reminder that the family is the first place of support for a child to communicate in everyday life. Therefore, this research aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of various articles regarding child adoption in family communication studies. Methods: This research uses a descriptive analysis method with data sources directly from Scopus database for 1980-2024 period (total of 818 articles) obtained using the abstract or keyword “child adoption”, processed, and visualized using VOSviewer software. Conclusion: The results show three most dominant concepts, namely child adoption, study, and communication studies. The stigma exists because child adoption is considered not to be a problem limited to the environment or trajectory in phenomena, especially in the sphere of family communication, but this situation affects the child’s development and future life. The results of this research can be used as a basis for reducing the intensity of child adoption in family communication studies. The limitation of this research is that articles discussed only come directly from the Scopus database, so they do not have comparative data. Therefore, future research needs to take a comparative analysis approach that uses the Web of Science (WoS) database and increases the period of each published article.

Із спостережень над сучасними тенденціями у функціюванні української мови в місті Ізмаїл

It is the special role of Izmail among other settlements of the Budzhak region that necessitates paying attention to the functioning of the Ukrainian language in Izmail, to changes in the linguistic behavior of the city’s residents in connection with social and political transformations in the country, in connection with Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The relevance of this issue is reinforced by the fact that the success of the Ukrainian language in Izmail will largely determine the state of the Ukrainian language in the region as a whole and national security in it. The purpose of the article is to highlight the main trends in the functioning of the state language in Izmail, Odesa region, caused by changes in the literary standard, in the language and educational legislation of Ukraine, in particular the adoption of the Laws of Ukraine “On Education” 2017, “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language” 2019, “Ukrainian Spelling” 2019, social and political transformations, and Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The author uses descriptive method of investigation, method of language biography, observation and etc. Results. The author notes significant positive changes in the functioning of the Ukrainian language in Izmail after the start of military aggression against Ukraine: Ukrainian language is becoming more widely spoken, it is increasingly heard in the city in various spheres of communication; Ukrainian speech is becoming more literate, speakers are trying to ensure the purity and correctness of their Ukrainian speech; attitudes towards Ukrainian as a native language are changing (even representatives of other ethnic groups, such as Moldovans, Gagauz’s, Bulgarians, etc. are beginning to consider it as such), as a prestigious, positive language, and its aesthetic values are changing. Originality. The peculiarities of the very dynamic functioning of the Ukrainian language in the city of Izmail in this time, in the context of changes in language and educational legislation, and Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine have not yet been scientifically described. Conclusion. Positive changes in the functioning of the Ukrainian language in Izmail are not yet stable, but rather trends that need to be consolidated by continuing the process of Ukrainization. This will contribute to the full-fledged consolidation of the Ukrainian language in Izmail, and to the expansion of its use as a means of interethnic communication in the region’s multilingual environment.

Migration narratives on social media: Digital racism and subversive migrant subjectivities

This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the role of social media in shaping narratives on migrants and refugees. The issue is organised into two parts. The first part offers analytical and empirical reflections on the dynamics of digital racism, xenophobia and polarisation on discourses by non-migrants, on migrants and refugees. The second part turns to the narratives promoted by migrants themselves through digital platforms as ways of both counteracting dominant narratives but also performing their own migrant subjectivity and creating a public digital identity for themselves. This introductory paper starts by offering a set of analytical considerations on the role of narratives in the communicative sphere in general and on the role of social media in particular with a view to framing the six paper contributions that follow.