Nominations of Russian aggression against Ukraine in English-language media: A cognitive-pragmatic study
Journal: The Journal of V N Karazin Kharkiv National University Series Foreign Philology Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
Year: 2022

During 2014–2022, the English-language media used several most common nominations for Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, from CRISIS and SPECIAL OPERATION to WAR, and the choice of the nomination testifies to the political position of the media and changes as events develop. This present study proves that different structures of these concepts determine their different place in the English linguistic world construal and, accordingly, their perception by native speakers. The hypothesis of