ROSJA W UKRAIŃSKICH MEMACH INTERNETOWYCH (OKRES WOJENNY 2022-2023)
RUSSIA IN UKRAINIAN INTERNET MEMES (WAR PERIOD 2022-2023)

Summary/Abstract: This paper contains a linguistic analysis of visual messages published on the Internet(mainly on Ukrainian websites) in the period from the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasionof Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to mid-2023. The content of the messages reflects currentwar events in the form of comments satirical, less often humorous, within the frameworkof political discourse. Discourse in the context of this study is understood as a set of speechactivities in the form of a dialogue or monologue, realizing a specific communicative goalunder specific conditions or circumstances. During the description of the empirical material,the following components of the war discourse will be indicated: participants of the discourse,time and space, goals and strategies of action, values cultivated by the participants, which arethe subject of reminiscence references, precedent texts and genre-specific linguistic units andconstructions. The article consists of three parts. The first part contains the definition of anInternet meme, as well as the characteristics of this genre, including stylistic and media aspects.In the second part, I will present the structure of the war discourse, partly referring to theprotest discourse. In the third part, I analyzed the empirical material, focusing on linguisticmeans and their historical, political and ideological characteristics. Material for the studywas collected from February 2022 to June 2023 on Ukrainian websites, on YouTube, andon Telegram communicator blogs.

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