Lexical and Pragmatic Analysis of the Ukrainian Crisis
Journal: Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal
Year: 2025

Examining how language reflects and constructs political and social reality, this paper offers a lexical and pragmatic analysis of the discourse surrounding the Ukrainian crisis. This study uses lexical/ pragmatic concepts in a corpus of texts from worldwide news stories, government declarations, and social media from 2014–2023. Its goal is to discover how particular word choices impact public perception and political viewpoints. The results show that people's word choices reflect their geopolit