Reconstruction of Ukrainian conflict-crisis in English news stories: Verbalizing the communicative component
Journal: Literature and Culture of Polissya
Year: 2019

The paper reveals that the communicative component of evolving the conflict-crisis which combines the periods of confrontation of varying intensity is verbalized by the linguistic units evoking the relations of sensori-motor origin known in cognitive linguistics as image schemas, i. e. recurring, dynamic patterns of our perceptual interactions and motor programs that give coherence and structure to our experience. The relations underlying the representation of conflict-crisis communicative compo