KEYWORDS OF THE CURRENT MOMENT IN THE MEDIA LANGUAGE OF THE SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION PERIOD

Abstract

The article deals with the key words of the current moment in the language of the mass media of the era of the special military operation (the period from February 24, 2022 to March 1, 2023). The authors made an attempt to analyze the active vocabulary of high-quality media of the latest period in order to identify the keywords of the current moment. The authors updated the concepts of “keywords of the current moment” and “active dictionary of the media language of the era”, recorded and described the key words of the era of the special operation and letters – symbols of time found during the study. It is noted that some of these words were already in the list of keywords of the current moment, and, having survived the actualization and conceptualization, returned to the active vocabulary of the mass media. Conclusions are drawn that the specifics of the modern media vocabulary are its militarization, replenishment at the expense of military vocabulary, including jargon.