KEY CONCEPTS OF POST-WAR UKRAINE IN THE COLLECTIVE COGNITIVE SPACE OF UKRAINIANS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ENGLISHSPEAKING ETHNOSPACE

Abstract

Present research takes an effort to reconstitute an aspect that investigates the way Ukrainians and Englishspeaking ethnic groups conceptualize post-war Ukraine. This is performed by identifying the main components of the conceptual system of the political and military-themed discourses presented in the mass media in the
Ukrainian and English-language corpora. The research methodology, combining cognitive representation, verbal reproduction and discursive implementation, includes: 1) selection of informational elements – concepts; 2) identifying significant concepts in the corpus based on functional frequency – autochthons; 3) a comparison of autochthons in Ukrainian and English-speaking ideas in the topic indicated.
According to the findings, both Ukrainian and English-language media aggressively thematized conceptions of Ukraine's post-war vision, proving their presence in the collective cognitive space. Issues that are obvious to both Ukrainians and Europeans/Americans are RECONSTRUCTION through SUPPORT, HELP, CHANGE, INTEGRATION (to European-American multipurpose systems). However, there
are differences: the Ukrainian side concentrates on INVESTMENTS and SUPPORT, whilst the European/American side focuses on REFORM and DEVELOPMENT, the latter is presumably underrepresented in the Ukrainian corpus, owing to Ukrainians’ current modest optimism.