Russian invasion of Ukraine: analyzing linguistic means describing the enemy in Ukrainian media
Journal: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Year: 2025

Abstract The current study covers changes in the corpus of the Ukrainian language as a result of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine which began on 24th February 2022. This research addresses the issue of rapidly changing worldviews and attitudes of the Ukrainian people, which have had a direct impact on the development of anti-aggressor narratives and an explosion of various linguistic means in the language when describing the war, the occupiers, and their atrocities committed on the ter