Religious images as markers of value transformations of modern Ukrainians (based on the material of the collective collection of poems “The mark of home”)

Abstract

The actual direction in modern domestic linguistics is the study of texts of various genres regarding their ability to capture and convey the process of formatting the worldview of a nation’s representatives. Such studios require a comprehensive approach involving historical, cultural, sociological, psychological knowledge, etc. This necessitates the development of an appropriate research methodology, which today is linguosophy.

The aim of our work is to investigate the poetic texts of the collective collection «The mark of home» (2019) in terms of the semantic implementation of religious images, which are constants of Ukrainian language thinking. Linguosophical analysis of the texts by male soldiers and female volunteers in a certain aspect allows us to draw conclusions about the emotional state and moral values of the patriotic part of Ukrainian society during the Russian-Ukrainian war. We observe both traditional implementations of religious images and individually author, through which poets reveal the motives for searching the meaning of life, betrayal, revenge, missianism, etc. The most represented images belong to Christian religion, realized through a range of nominations (God, Lord, Almighty, Messiah, Christ). A characteristic feature of the analysed poetry is the language formation of the analysed images at the intersection of religious and military discourses, which at the textual level occurs through the active involvement of the nominations of military realities. The variety of interpretations of religious images and motives regarding the analysed texts allows us to draw conclusions about the worldview and perception of Ukrainians in a challenging historical period and demonstrate the inexhaustible capacity of the language to convey profound meanings.