War and Language

This article explores contemporary plays by African American women and addresses their readings of physical and linguistic abuse in the discourse of racial and cultural diversity. The focal plays are Robbie McCauley's Sally's Rape (1989) and Judith Alexa Jackson's WOMBmanWARs (1992). The two plays contextualize the physical violence enforced on black women to project the nuanced facets of linguistic abuse, such as linguistic opacity and silence, clash of voices, and "violation of understanding" that shapes gender relations. In this article, we examine how Sally's Rape and WOMBmanWARs integrate rape as a particular case of physical violence to protest the politics of sexual, racial, and cultural miscommunication. In particular, we argue that these two plays articulate reversion into archetypes, return to the

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that Ukraine is under the influence of military aggression, and ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language under such conditions is a fundamental guarantee of its national security and state sovereignty. The purpose of the study is to examine the peculiarities of the Ukrainian language as the state language in two aspects: as a sign and communication system and as a system that performs a practical social role in society. The subject of the study is the state language as an important element of the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people and a prerequisite for the formation of its national identity. The methodological basis of the study is general (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and special (methods of collecting information and processing it, methods of forecasting and modeling) means of scientific knowledge. The research resulted in the argumentation that an extremely important factor in solving the problem of achie...

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that Ukraine is under the influence of military aggression, and ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language under such conditions is a fundamental guarantee of its national security and state sovereignty. The purpose of the study is to examine the peculiarities of the Ukrainian language as the state language in two aspects: as a sign and communication system and as a system that performs a practical social role in society. The subject of the study is the state language as an important element of the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people and a prerequisite for the formation of its national identity. The methodological basis of the study is general (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and special (methods of collecting information and processing it, methods of forecasting and modeling) means of scientific knowledge. The research resulted in the argumentation that an extremely important factor in solving the problem of achie...

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that Ukraine is under the influence of military aggression, and ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language under such conditions is a fundamental guarantee of its national security and state sovereignty. The purpose of the study is to examine the peculiarities of the Ukrainian language as the state language in two aspects: as a sign and communication system and as a system that performs a practical social role in society. The subject of the study is the state language as an important element of the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people and a prerequisite for the formation of its national identity. The methodological basis of the study is general (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and special (methods of collecting information and processing it, methods of forecasting and modeling) means of scientific knowledge. The research resulted in the argumentation that an extremely important factor in solving the problem of achieving national unity is the national language, which should be spoken by the entire population of the country, since the language in which a person not only communicates but also thinks, at the subconscious level, also forms spiritual values corresponding to a particular language. It is the unity of language, spiritual values, and cultural heritage that is a prerequisite for ensuring the national unity of a country and the formation of its nation's identity. The conclusion of the study is that the State language is the most important part of the national wealth of Ukraine and therefore should be under special protection by the State as one of the objects of the system of ensuring the national security of the country.

У роботі висвітлюється мовленнєвий феномен використання російської мови як мови ворога в українському контексті в дописах соціальних мереж і платформ. Це явище потребує чітко окресленого спеціального поняття в мовознавчій дисципліні. Пропонується термін "навмисна інтерференція", що позначає свідоме використання чужої мови в текстах (усних чи писемних) рідної мови задля певних стилістичних ефектів.

Die Energiekosten steigen, die Inflation wächst, Betriebe gehen insolvent und Arbeitsplätze verloren. Auch hierzulande werden die ökonomischen Folgen des russischen Krieges gegen die Ukraine immer spürbarer. Wieviel Wohlstandsverlust kann unsere Gesellschaft ertragen, bis ihr innerer Friede in Mitleidenschaft gezogen wird – und was bleibt dann noch von der Solidarität mit Kiew? Das dürfte nicht nur Wladimir Putin strategisch interessieren. Das müssen sich auch die europäischen Regierungen fragen, wenn ihre Sanktionen innenpolitisch ein Preisschild bekommen.
Was sollen uns Völkerrecht und transnationale Gerechtigkeit wert sein? Welche Opfer wollen wir für den Schutz von geflüchteten und vertriebenen Menschen bringen? Welchen Preis müssen wir für die Verteidigung von Demokratie und Freiheit bezahlen? Und wie rechtfertigen wir diese Kosten denen gegenüber, die ihre Existenzgrundlage gefährdet sehen?

בר-זוהר, ב' (2022). בנפול אויבך: סיקור מותם של נשיאים מצרים בעיתונים ובאתרי חדשות ישראליים. קשר, 58, 82-59.

This qualitative research examined the ways in which Israeli newspapers and websites covered the death of three Egyptian presidents: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1970), Anwar Sadat (1981), and Hosni Mubarak (2020) the week following their demise. The study describes and demonstrates how the Israeli press changed its attitude toward the Egyptian presidency over the years: from hostile enemy to true friend.
After Nasser died, the Israeli media portrayed a threatening and opposing image, and highlighted the hard line he had led against the state of Israel and the Jewish people. In contrast, after Sadat was assassinated, the Israeli press positioned itself as Sadat’s sole defenders, in contrast to Arab leaders, who denounced him. Furthermore, the Israeli media defined Sadat as a symbol of peace and even forgave and expressed understanding of his offensive role in the Yom Kippur War. In 2020, reportage on Mubarak's death also reflected a dignified and friendly tone, compared to the criticism voiced by Egyptian citizens and politicians. Mubarak's death also unveiled significant differences between the journalism on online websites and that of printed newspapers.

My M.A. thesis deals with the theoretic subject of The Relation between Military Results & Political Outcomes. The main argument of the study is that under the bipolar system of the Cold War era, a small country which initiated a local war would achieve its political goals when they matched the superpowers’ balance-of-interests, with no connection to the military results of the war: i.e., victory or defeat in the war by the country that initiated it.