WAR IN UKRAINE: HUMOR VS FEAR (COMMUNICATIVE AND PRAGMATIC ASPECT)

The article presents material on the peculiarities of linguistic representation fight against fears war in modern Ukrainian language (using example posts Facebook social network and other Internet sources). following methods were used for research: observation description phenomena, text decoding method, comparison, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, continuous sampling method. traces evolution discourse fear general life a particular. study describes system emotional psychological images expressing verbal means overcoming them. main purpose using humor turns out to devalue fears, so themselves negative characters associated with them are depicted comical, uncomfortable situations. It has been proven that its most diverse manifestations (irony, satire, trolling, banter) permeate all resources thinking: dictionary, grammar, orthographic means, quotation thesaurus, sociocultural stereotypes, language. norms registers speech. From communicative pragmatic point view, putin, aggressor country russia, russian invaders, etc., analyzed. was established some names form semantic microsystems branched synonymous series (stereotypical russians, putin himself). As analysis showed, significant number new creations, obscene euphemistic vocabulary perform primarily protective (health-preserving), evaluative-reflective integrative (socially unifying) functions, since they intended calm, encourage Ukrainians maintain at least relative mental balance same time help sort feelings, condemn enemy brace up keep struggling way victory. mechanisms dispelling it have contributed knowledge connection between people's worldview their national picture world.