THE WAR LANGUAGE IN MILITARY DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSE OF CRISIS

Abstract

War, as a contemporary worldview experience, permeates all spheres of social life. The gradual comprehension of war in sociocultural polemics has led to its comprehensive reflection in various discourses. Its perforation into military discourse and discourse of crisis is entirely natural since texts that form, for instance, the corpus of official documents, journalistic articles, and others, do not arise in an ideological vacuum but emerge as a complex of socio-political phenomenon. According to J. Galtung, the study of the epistemological evolution of knowledge about the language of war is an important task of modern linguomethodology [1]. N. Santiáñez associates this with expansionism and the aspiration for the most comprehensive coverage of linguistic phenomena [2]. The origins of the functional paradigm in linguistics can be observed in the works of the German linguist and philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt, who saw the primary goal of the science of language as transitioning its study from “ergon” to “energy”, that is, from systemic phenomena to their functioning in speech [3]. The present days, scholars are increasingly aware of the fact that language is an open, dynamic system that shows a stable tendency toward growth, especially during periods of intensified military conflicts. In this study, the war linguistics is considered to be a part of philological research that reveals the heuristic potential of the war language. This forms the foundation for a new linguopolitical environment in texts of various functional and stylistic markings, which have become particularly relevant and productive during the periods of military conflicts. The object of war linguistics is the war language, which constitutes the basis of military discourse and the discourse of crisis and shapes the linguistic continuum of the modern linguistic paradigm in political linguistics, sociolinguistics, military communication, and military conflictology.