NON-VIOLENT UKRAINISATION: MODERN FREEDOM WEARS YELLOW-AND-BLUE

Abstract

The paper addresses the issue of frame analysis of discourse fragments related to the high-scale war in Ukraine started by russian federation on the 24th of February 2022. The article outlines the peculiarities of Ukraine/Ukraine-related mentions in English-speaking media online discourse, the presence and accumulation of which, gives the grounds for them to be united under the notion of UKRAINISATION. The work prioritised 1) the collection of the corpus of Ukraine-connected mentions in the online available English-speaking media; 2) the selection and analysis of the basic schemas of evoked as well as invoked frames; and 3) the description of the current frames connected with Ukraine and Ukrainians. The elements of frame analyses in terms of onomasiological and semasiological approaches were used to identify the basic frame serving as a construct of the information that pertains to a particular event or a notion associated with Ukraine and Ukrainians worldwide. The corpus of the discourse fragments was retrieved from online English-speaking media; it underwent the sorting out based on the aspect its constituents appeal to. Such aspects as: expressing admiration, support (both verbally and non-verbally), showing solidarity, demonstrating sharing of same values, seeing and understanding of russian war in Ukraine. In the paper the model of non-violent Ukrainisation is offered, which supports the idea that Ukrainisation has become an embodiment of supporting modern democratic values shared by democratic societies.