The dissertation is devoted to the new socio-political neolexicon in Ukrainian internet communication on the synchronous cut of 2014-2019. It conducts the integral analysis of semantic, formal and socio-normative aspects of the new socio¬political nominations, and clarifies their functioning peculiarities in the language of online media and social networks.
The thesis scientific relevance is due to the first attempt in Ukrainian linguistics to provide evidence for the necessity of socio-political neolexicon permanent analysis in terms of hybrid warfare; emphasize the role of internet- communication as a platform for proper neologisms, neosemantisms, and new loanwords trial; implement the author’s socio-political neolexicon integrated analysis algorithm which allows to take into account the semantic, formal, and socio¬normative features of lexical units, on the one hand, and the modern internet- communication specifics, on the other hand; prove the powerful functional load of new socio-political units with negative evaluative components that serve as an indicator of the Ukrainian society polarization. The practical value of the work is that the collected materials will serve to supplement and compile lexicographical works, clarify the criteria for socio-normative assessment of innovations and borrowings, and help to identify hate speech in internet-communication.
The first chapter generalize the achievements of Ukrainian and foreign linguists in the field of political discourse lexicological research, performed in structural and anthropological paradigms. The author clarifies the peculiarities of discursive, cognitive and rhetorical approaches in political linguistics as well as totalitarian language and political metaphor studies.
The content and categorical features of the concept socio-political neolexicon are determined through characteristics of its status in the language lexical-semantic subsystem, ideological component in units’ semantics, stylistic stratification, functioning domain and denoted concepts relevance.
The thesis outlines research specifics of internet communication being a heterogeneous phenomenon under the influence of social, communicative, and technical parameters in online environment as well as genre and user’s language personality. Online media and social networks are two types of multi-genre platforms based on different principles of information transmission, however, they both reveal the language superdiversity and multimodality in computer mediated communication. Hybrid aggression, post-truth politics, fake news and information bubbles are the catalysts of negative social processes in the internet-communication.
During developing integral analysis methodology for the new socio-political vocabulary in the Ukrainian internet communication, the author solves a number of ethical and methodological problems, i.e. the need to anonymize illustrative material in order to protect the internet users’ personal data; screening-out of speech material produced by bots or troll farms; the possibility to use the Google Trends platform to study lexical innovations and their variation.
The conclusions summarize that the integrated analysis of socio-political neolexicon allows to trace the semantic, formal and socio-normative features of lexical units in the modern Ukrainian internet communication taking into account the specifics of proper neologisms, neosemantisms, new loanwords appearance and functioning in socio-political content in online media and social networks. The trends of social life, influences of new technologies and realities of hybrid warfare are closely connected with the semantic stratification, productivity of word-formation and borrowing, and functional load of the units in the studied cluster.
The generalizations are feasible for use in studies of other thematic segments in lexicon. Moreover, they can serve as a basis for further analysis of Ukrainian users’ communicative practices in social networks in the context of information aggression and hybrid warfare.
Key words: lexicology, stylistics, socio-political vocabulary, neolexicon, neologisms, proper neologisms, neosemantisms, new loanwords, internet- communication, language of online media, language of social networks, thematic groups, socio-political content, hybrid warfare.
