LINGUOPRAGMATIC SPECIFICITY OF V. ZELENSKYY’S SPEECHES (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE ON THE OCCASION OF THE CONSTITUTION DAY AND THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF UKRAINE)

Abstract

The article deals with revealing the structural, semantic, linguistic and pragmatic features of V. Zelenskyy’s political speeches, because today the focus of researchers’ attention is the presentation of individual symbolic specificity, which allows to increase effective and efficient communication. The aim of the study is to identify the main markers used by the speaker from a linguopragmatic point of view as well as to present a typology of communicative strategies, and to describe the performative types of sentences in V. Zelenskyy’s speech. To achieve the aim, we have identified the following objectives: 1) to single out the parameters of key units’ explication in the speech of Ukrainian President; 2) to determine the modes of epistemic modality representation; 3) to identify the main communication strategies and tactics. The study material is the official speeches translation delivered by the president of our country on June 28, 2023 (before Constitution Day) and August 24, 2023 (before Independence Day). The frequent use of affirmative and generalizing pronouns, syntactic and synonymous repetitions, persuasive sentences and rhetorical questions, epistemic modal constructions are characteristic of the president’s speech. Sentences with various types of objections and adjectives in the form of the highest degree of comparison are dominant. Texts play an important role in the speech, because the basis is informativeness, subjectivity of the author’s vision of events, and completeness. Therefore, V. Zelenskyy uses constructions in the present continuous tense for information, clarification, affirmation, and generalization. The following pragmatic performative types of sentences based on communicative and intentional content prevail: expressive, representative, declarative, assertiveness. The vector of communicative behavior of the President of Ukraine is outlined by the following dominant strategies and tactics: self-representation, consolidation, authority, opposition, argumentativeness, positive perspective, discretization, analogy, etiquette. The perspective of further scientific studies can be seen in the comparative analysis of Ukrainian- and English-language speeches of V. Zelenskyy.