The relevance of the research topic is determined by the interest in stereotypes of public consciousness, dictated by the real situation the military invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine. The analysis of the social stereotype, in particular, of the war era, as a phenomenon of social reality, the mechanisms of launching a stable connection between the perception of objects and the corresponding repeated behavior, is a necessity and one of the important real ways to reduce unpredictable social risks and conflicts. The goal of intelligence is to reveal, reveal the essence, functions and properties of wartime social stereotypes, determine their role in the structure of the modern communicative space. Research methodology. The research is based on the materials of media texts provided in open Internet sources. The work uses a complex and systematic combination of general scientific and special (linguistic) research methods based on the basic principles of anthropocentrism, which affirms the key role of the human factor in the process of learning about the world. Research results and their discussion. The study of social stereotypes of the war period is aimed at describing the mechanisms of their categorization and evaluation, with a focus on the cultural environment that collectively forms the conditions for their occurrence. We will interpret the social stereotype as a conscious linguistic and cognitive phenomenon, which is a means of fixing and reproducing the categorically conditioned linguistic experience of the bearer of ethnic consciousness, which ensures the systematic
cognitive processes; stereotyping; social stereotype; communicative space; means of mass communication
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