Speech and Structural Realization of the Emotional Revenge Concept in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian Full-Scale War

The article analyzes the emotional REVENGE concept as the result of a complex mastering process of lingual and extra-lingual reality by the Ukrainians. Extra-lingual reality for the Ukrainians today is a full-scale russian-Ukrainian war, which requires enormous emotional effort from them. The emotional REVENGE concept as a structural and semantic formation for representation of knowledge about emotions remains out of researchers’ attention, especially as an independent object of study. Therefore, emphasis on the emotional concept in the focus of research in conditions of extreme uncertainty proves feasibility and relevance. In the structure of the analyzed concept, three interrelated components of its organization are singled out: actual, figurative and evaluative, which are actualized in discourses of Ukrainian online media news pages by nomination, euphemization and expression. As a result of the axiological nature of the concept, the evaluative component shows a close connection with relevant and imaginative. The main relevant component of the REVENGE concept has been defined by definitive analysis of the concept name and determines negative or neutral positions regarding direct assessment in the categories of good and evil. It has been demonstrated that any concept is in constant motion, undergoes changes in its interpretation depending on the specific historical period. Therefore, the analysis of the actual speech material of the full-scale russian-Ukrainian war period has testified changing the interpretation of the evaluation component of the REVENGE concept. Neutral or negative evaluative component ceases to be relevant and changes its quality to a positive one as dominanting in the emotional world of today’s Ukrainians, which confirms the instability and variability of the concept and qualifies it as national-cultural, ethno-marked.