Rimvydo Valatkos komentarų apie Rusijos ir Ukrainos karą ypatumai: stilistinis aspektas
The Characteristics of Comments on the Russia-Ukraine War by Rimvydas Valatka: the Stylistic Aspect

Summary/Abstract: The object of the study covered by this article is the emotives and expressives used by the journalist Rimvydas Valatka in his comments on the war between Russia and Ukraine that were published on the delfi.lt news portal in 2022. A total of 44 such comments have been found. The goal of the article is to determine the quantity and the style of the instruments that Valatka uses in his comments on the war that Russia has started in Ukraine. The journalist’s texts are defined by a variety of stylistic figures (with lateral instruments totalling 218 (36.1%)), however, for stylistic purposes, it is the usual and occasional phraseologisms (totalling 134 (22.2%) and 92 (15.3%), appropriately), figurative verbs (77 (12.8%)), neologisms (43 (7.1%)), and dysphemisms (39 (6.5%)) that are used most frequently (with primary instruments totalling 385 (63.9%)). The lateral stylistic instruments are not marked by any degree of productivity and consist of slang (29 (4.8%)); inclusions from foreign languages (26 (4.3%)); metaphorical and figurative nouns (23 (3.8%)); antonomasias and personal names (20 (3.3%)); irony (20 (3.3%)); similes (20 (3.3%)); parcellation (18 (2.9%)); interjections and onomatopoeic interjections (15 (2.5%)); allusions (13 (2.2%)); remakes (7 (1.2%)); sayings, proverbs (6 (1%)); barbarisms (6 (1%)); vulgarisms (6 (1%)); paraphrases (5 (0.8%)); and swearwords (4 (0.7%)). Original comments use negative connotative stylistic instruments to give an emotionally charged description of the warmongering Russian President Vladimir Putin, his entourage (political mates, broadcasters of the Kremlin’s propaganda, supporters of the Kremlin’s policy), the Russian troops, and every modern-day antihero (war supporters, passive politicians) who actively or passively (through their political indifference and failure to act) endorses and supports the war in Ukraine.

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