War-Related Collocations of Expressing a Negative Connotation in War Language: Corpus-Oriented and Lingvosynergetic Approach

Authors

  • Yuliya Demyanchuk

    Foreign Languages and Translation Studies Department, Lviv State University of Life Safety, Lviv 79000, Ukraine
  • Iryna Biskub

    Applied Linguistics Department, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk 43000, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i2.8402
Received: 13 January2025 | Revised: 9 February 2025 | Accepted: 11 February 2025 | Published Online: 26 February 2025

Abstract

The scientific work is dedicated to the analysis of war-related collocations as a phenomenon of transdisciplinary nature and the mechanisms of their conceptualization in wartime communication. In our study, the axiological framework consists of epistemological and anthropocentric approaches, along with the principle of fractality. The application of a corpus-driven approach into the non-fictional text analysis using Orange software, aids in performing various tasks within the corpus: extracting keywords (one component war-related collocations) with a negative connotation; analyzing war-related collocations that affect the phase trajectory of the language system; determining the relationship between two random variables policy and resilience for understanding author’s view on events, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses, military experts and political analysts. The corpus-driven approach is focused on establishing the hierarchy of war-related collocations that define the content and scope of the concept of the Russian-Ukrainian war and reveal the linguopolitical synergy of the socio-political space, language space, and war linguistics within the military-political framework. Additionally, the software Cortical.io provides a wide range of war-related collocations – used in the discourse of wartime communication. As a result of lingvosynergetic approach, self-oscillations arose in the dissipative system. In accordance with the outcome, the performativity of collocations lies in the fact that they not only describe but also actively shape reality through language, and in this process, they reveal new communicative paradigms during wartime. A corpus-driven and linguosynergetic approaches enabled us to identify the motives of war in non-fictional texts.

Keywords:

War-Related Collocations; Wartime Communication; Corpus-Driven Approach; Epistemological and Anthropocentric Approach; Principle of Fractality; Linguopolitical Synergy

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Demyanchuk, Y., & Biskub, I. (2025). War-Related Collocations of Expressing a Negative Connotation in War Language: Corpus-Oriented and Lingvosynergetic Approach. Forum for Linguistic Studies, 7(2), 1115–1126. https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i2.8402

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