Rozghon, I.
(2023).
Euphemism trasnformation in the context of military language.
International Journal of Philology,
14(3),
55-63.
https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog14(3).2023.06
The article analyzes modern approaches to the interpretation of military euphemisms moreover understanding the difference between political correctness and hybrid war. The article presents the study of the functioning of military-political euphemisms in modern English language on the example of war in Ukraine in the means of mass communication. Significance of the given research is stipulated by the vivid interest to the matters of euphemism, in the context of military terms, penetrated into all areas of activity, especially in mass media language style. The results reflect the general state of achieving the goal and performing tasks in clarifying the concept of “euphemism”, besides this determines the functional and pragmatic features of military-political euphemisms, linguistic means of countering the manipulation of the recipients’ consciousness by using military-political euphemisms in the media space under the conditions of a hybrid war. The article focuses on the importance of euphemism formation and its overcoming: an exposure of “language corruption” as one of the manipulation types, as well as, detection of the so-called “foreign meanings” in the war language. The research deals with the theoretical background on the usage of military euphemisms not only in English-speaking media. Ukrainian example is taken into consideration. It fallows that there are differences between military euphemisms and other euphemisms
military terms; euphemisms; political correctness; manipulation; hybrid war; roundabout expressions; interpretation
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