Volodymyr Zelensky Research Articles

Implicatures as speech means in the realization of political discourse strategies

The article aims to analyse a declassified telephone conversation between the U.S. President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The object of analysis is utterances with implications that are studied on peculiarities of the implementation of strategies and tactics in the political discourse. As main characteristics of implicatures, intendability and derivability determine the strategic nature of their actualisation in the political discourse. The strategy of influence is considered the global strategy of political discourse since the main motive of politicians is to expand their electorate. In some areas of the discourse, the global strategy is fulfilled in the local strategies. At the level of speech acts, local and global strategies are fulfilled in speech strategies or tactics that are directly related to the speech characteristics of utterances. American political discourse uses the following strategies of influence: manipulation, subjectivation, populism, fascination, and simplification of information. The manipulation strategy lies in twisting the facts in order to denigrate the opponents. Using the subjectivation strategy, a politician attempts to stand out from the crowd of other politicians. The populism strategy allows a politician to pretend that their main motive is the desire to help people. The fascination strategy aim to provoke strong emotions of the recipient. These local strategies are implemented by tactics of accusation, slander, repetition, opposition, as well as colloquial and emotional-evaluative vocabulary. Corresponding speech devices serve as indicators of conversational implications. Conversational implicatures prevail over conventional ones. The analysed discourse is characterized by chains of implicatures which are used by Trump to manipulate Zelensky.

ЛІНГВОАКСІОЛОГІЧНЕ МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ КОНФЛІКТУ МІЖ ПРИБІЧНИКАМИ ТА ОПОНЕНТАМИ МИРНИХ ІНІЦІАТИВ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ ВОЛОДИМИРА ЗЕЛЕНСЬКОГО

The article is devoted to the discursive projections of the discussion about President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and his peace initiatives. The articles about these initiatives published in the internetnewspaper «Ukrainska Pravda» were analyzed. It was selected for investigating the preparing for the Paris Summit on 9th December 2020 and reactions to its results. This discourse attracts attention due to the huge number of negative evaluations given to the traditionally positive value PEACE and to the actions directed towards gaining of it. The research has been carried out in the cognitive discoursive paradigm and critical discourse analysis. Those are approaches which let us open the meanings input by a speaker in the text sometimes unconsciously. It should be noted that investigation of hybrid wars highlights the great role of hided meanings in it. The original method of axiological dynamic modeling has been used to open these meanings. With its help, process and results of axiological categorization can be presented as an axiological propositional structure. Thus, the denoted situation «Peace initiatives by President of Ukraine Zelensky at the Paris Summit 2019» has been modeled with the propositional axiological frame. This frame contains such structural components: the subject of evaluation – Ukrainians, whose articles or comments were published in the internet-newspaper «Ukrainska Pravda»; the predicate of evaluation – «I think that my opinion is reliable and socially acceptable enough to become public»; the object of evaluation – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, his political power and party, his peace initiatives and the value Peace as such; the predicate of evaluation: (1) positive and negative valences for the same objects, that give the reasons to say about axiological conflict; (2) criteria of evaluation – ACKNOWLEDGMENT, DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE, PATRIOTISM, POWER (SOCIAL STATUS), RESULT, SECURITY. As far as criteria of evaluation correlate with the value concepts of a speaker, one can say that those are the value concepts which become the basis for categorization of this situation. As regards the reason of the conflict, its sources can be such: (1) participants of the conflict share similar values but put them on different places in their hierarchical value systems; (2) different opinions about denotative meanings of mentioned values, first of all about meanings of the concepts SECURITY and PEACE.

Priorytety programowe kandydatów na urząd prezydenta Ukrainy w 2019 roku

The aim of the article is to present the proposals of candidates running for the office of President of Ukraine in 2019. It has been shown what issues they paid closest attention to in their election programmes, how they intended to ensure national security, restore territorial integrity, fight corruption, and improve the socio-economic and political situation in Ukraine. Attention was brought to the proposals of those candidates who received at least 10% support in the election. Therefore, the election programmes of Volodymyr Zelensky, Petro Poroshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Boyko were analysed

Determinanty wewnętrzne polityki zagranicznej Ukrainy pod rządami Wołodymyra Zełenskiego

The present paper discusses the following research questions: to what extent did errors made by the previous presidents of Ukraine result in the country’s failure to introduce systemic reforms (e.g. combating corruption, the development of a foundation for a stable state under the rule of law and free-market economy)?; can it be ventured that the lack of radical reforms along with errors in the internal politics of Ukraine under Petro Poroshenko resulted in the president’s failure?; will the strong vote of confidence given to Volodymyr Zelensky and the Servant of the People party exact systemic reforms in Ukraine?; or will Volodymyr Zelensky merely become an element of the oligarchic political system in Ukraine?

A People-Oriented Peace Formula for the Donbass

Ukraine’s recent presidential election was, in many ways, exceptional. The first-round poll had never been so undecided. On April 21, 2019, a young newcomer, Volodymyr Zelensky, won a large victory...

PRO-WESTERN POLICY OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY AS THREAT FOR POSSIBLE RUSSIAN CONCEPT OF UKRAINE FEDERALIZATION

The election of a new president of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, was for many analysts and ordinary citizens of Ukraine a big astonishment. The new head of the state is a complete debutant on Ukraine's political scene and will be having to make many decisions, related to the shape of foreign policy, especially in determining the vectors of its development. President, often emphasizing the will of further integration with European and Atlantic structures must reckon with Russia's interferences in any attempts which can bring Ukraine closer to the Western structures. Ukraine's federalization concept can be considered as one of such undertakings. Treated by Russian politics as a remedy for political and national cleavages, is received by Ukrainian politicians as a first step to destroy the state unity. This concept also has been negatively received by president Zelensky. His resolute answer for federalization proposal is associated with many questions: is his openly pro-Western foreign policy a serious threat for Russia's vision of Ukraine as a federal state? Despite Zelensky’s objection will he agree to be a partial federalization due to the ongoing conflict in the Eastern part of Ukraine? And how this concept can influence the frames of his presidency in the context of planned rapprochement with the West?

Ukraine's Post-Maidan Struggles: I. The Rise of an "Outsider" President

In May 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky was inaugurated as Ukraine's sixth president. A political novice best known as a comic actor, he had garnered over 73 percent of the vote in the April run-off election. While Zelensky's inaugural address left little doubt that he would continue to position himself as a political outsider and disruptor of the system, it remains to be seen whether his actions will be as bold as his words. As the country heads into parliamentary elections, the coming months will be a crucial test of Ukraine's democracy, the resiliency of its still fragile institutions, and its dedication to continuing reforms.

Порох для победы. Президентская избирательная кампания 2019 г. на Украине

The 2019 presidential election in Ukraine was marked by a record number of candidates and unprecedented diversity of political forces represented in the campaign. The election once again showed its unpredictability, and the participation of media personalities turned out to be a serious challenge for the Ukrainian authorities. The sensational vote for Volodymyr Zelensky, who received the title of Destroyer of Elites, can become a cultural phenomenon and set a significant precedent in modern Ukrainian history.

The Double instance of the political. Imaginary: affects as rhetorical means and structure

Although emotions are linked to irrationality, a number of recent researches have shown emotions are central to political behaviour. While as politics is an emotionally dense sphere of individual and collective action, any fuller comprehension of the political imaginary must ponder it. This paper considers the emotional dimension of the political imaginary according to a dual rhetorical instance: the use of emotions as tools (emotional appeals) to influence behaviour and thinking; and the very affective nature of politics as such. In other words, I will examine affects as rhetorical means and as structuring elements of the political imaginary. By referring to empirical political messages – from the Daisy Ad until the election of the comedian actor Volodymyr Zelensky as President of Ukraine - it is claimed that the political imaginary is not just about collective reasoning. The political imaginary is also something that we feel. This paper intends to clarify how affects help to determine collective feeling and, consequently, political decision making and social understanding