Семантико-текстуальні дослідження в українській лінгвоекспертології: тлумачення поняття ‘глорифікація’
Semantic-Textual Research in Ukrainian Linguistic Expertise: Interpretation of the Concept of ‘Glorification’

Author(s): Natalia V. Kondratenko
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: linguistic expertise; semantic-textual analysis; speech act; glorification; evaluation category
Summary/Abstract: The study investigates one of the current and promising areas of modern linguistics – linguistic expertology. This direction is at the stage of formation in Ukrainian linguistics. Linguistic expert research is primarily represented by semantic-textual analysis carried out based on media texts. Modern historical conditions cause increased attention to the dissemination of information in the public space, in particular in media discourse and social networks. The emergence of new concepts and changes in legislation require linguists to respond immediately and provide theoretical justification for previously unknown terms and approaches. One such term, ‘glorification’, actively functions in modern requests for semantic-textual linguistic research. The purpose of the paper is to determine approaches to the analysis of the concept of glorification in semantic-textual linguistic expertise. The tasks of the research is to define the concept ‘glorification’ based on terminological sources and explanatory dictionaries, determine the main linguistic means of expressing glorification in political and media texts and highlight the main speech acts of glorification. The material for the research was the texts of the protocols and queries of the semantic-textual linguistic expertise of the period of the full-scale invasion of the Russian troops in Ukraine (2022–2023), which were mostly created in the Russian language, but function in the Ukrainian public space. It has been shown that the concept of glorification in semantic-textual linguistic expertise is a manifestation of the category of positive evaluation, which implies its qualification according to semantic and pragmatic criteria. The concept of glorification in the semantic-textual expertise, according to the explanatory glossaries of the Ukrainian language, has the meaning of “veneration, exaltation” and implies a positive assessment of the relevant subjects. The main speech acts of glorification are praise, approval and thanks. Linguistic expertise should be based on traditional methods of semantic analysis with the identification of vocabulary with positive evaluative meaning and on linguopragmatic analysis to determine specific speech acts of praise, which are the expression of the highest degree of positive evaluation.

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