WORD-FORMING CONTAMINATION AS A MANIFESTING OF LINGUOCREATIVITY ON THE PHENOMENON OF WAR (ON THE MATERIAL OF MEDIA TEXTS)

The article considers word-forming contamination as a manifestation of the language game acquiring a pronounced pragmatic orientation to verbalize their emotional and psychological state during the military confrontation. The purpose of the study is to identify structural and semantic features of innovative contaminants in modern media discourse. The object of research is innovative derivatives in modern media texts and the subject-word-forming contaminants in the media and their structural and semantic varieties. The source base for the study served on 235 word-formation innovations recorded in the online media (mostly in telegram channels of Ukrainian and Russian opposition bloggers) from February to June 2022. It was found that the most active is the contamination type of derivatives formed by imposing one creative basis on another. In second place in terms of the number of recorded contaminants is the method of isolating one creative basis into another. It was found that 75% of the recorded graph derivatives contain the Latin letter Z, which in the Ukrainian and Russian opposition media discourse became a symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and acquired a negative evaluation value. Particular attention is paid to innovations that have emerged as a result of the language game with precedent phrases from media texts of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is proposed to nominate such occasionalism, which was formed in a lexical-syntactic way and acquired the status of hashtags, and hashtag-contaminants. It is proved that the names of the aggressor country, government officials, the military, and all supporters of imperial-militaristic policy acquire a low tone. The negative evaluation of a person or phenomenon occurs with the help of reduced-invective vocabulary, which creates an ironic color to the work. The synthetic functionality of contaminants, which perform nominative, evaluative and expressive functions at the same time, is substantiated. This fact confirms the general tendency towards the conscious desire of speakers to save word-forming means. The study provides grounds for determining the following results: modern media texts demonstrate the extraordinary activity of innovative contaminants as information weapons during the Russian-Ukrainian war; the variety of structural and semantic models of the analyzed derivatives testifies to the high creative potential of speakers and the productivity of non-casual ways of word-formation. We see the prospects of the study in the in-depth development of the structural-semantic classification of contaminants in modern media discourse.