Expressive means of linguistic expressiveness in the texts of anthologies about the Russo-Ukrainian war

Abstract

The article analyzes the expressive means of linguistic expressiveness in the texts of anthologies
about the Russo-Ukrainian war. It is determined that spatio-temporal components, toponyms, stylistic
figures, phraseological units, with the help of which the authors convey the emotional state and their
own vision of the war, add expressiveness to the analyzed works. The illustrative examples given in the
paper show that the most frequently used figurative means are various types of toponyms: choronyms,
astionyms, drymonyms, which acquire symbolic meaning and perform nominative, stylistic and
localization functions. They help the reader imagine the place where the events take place and their
use is mostly metaphorical. It is proven that expressive sounding is created by various stylistic figures:
antonomasia, antithesis, deonymization, hyperbole, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. The most common
artistic device is antithesis, which gives the texts of anthologies emotionality, expressiveness and
imagery. Intensity and duration of the action are emphasized by repetition, which performs reinforcing,
isolating, emotional-expressive and structural functions. It is found out that the authors of anthologies
use various means of expression, in particular sensory images, among which visual perception prevails.
The results show that black, gray, dark colors predominate in the analyzed texts, with the help of which
the writers convey the lyrical hero’s feelings of pain, sadness, joylessness caused by the realities of the
Russo-Ukrainian war. Emotional and evaluative modality is imbedded in lexical and phraseological
neologisms that characterize modern reality. Taken together, these results suggest that in the texts of
the anthologies about the Russo-Ukrainian war, emotionality of the expression is achieved by figurative
and stylistic means of language.