LINGUISTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION COVERAGE OF UKRAINE IN FOREIGN MEDIA

Abstract

The article is focused on methods and features of presenting information about Ukraine abroad, especially in the articles of people from different countries. It aims to compare articles about our country which help us find out how foreign mass media show Ukraine in their news and understand specifics of presenting crucial information and shapes readers’ opinions. The study examines and highlights the linguistic and semantic analysis and the comparative analysis of opinions about Ukraine in foreign media. News and articles are one of the greatest resources of giving information that form public opinions. The current research is based on the articles of such authors as Qimiao Fan’s “Ukraine’s Health System: Time for Change” and Jonathan Beale’s “Ukraine war: Inside the fight for the last streets of Bakhmut”. They are applied for comparative analysis, because they are written during the russian-Ukrainian war and perfectly highlight the contrast. The war topic has been relevant for writing articles in Ukraine since 2014, but there is a task for us to discover whether the same situation dominates abroad. As known, foreign mass media does not always write only the truth as sometimes it is not profitable for them to show everything as it really is, or they have the task of giving any information that will distract the reader from real problems in the state. Every piece of information published on the Internet has its own meaning, both hidden and explicit. Therefore, it is very important for us to understand its sense. In addition, it is necessary for the research tasks to compare articles written in different years provided that they are united by an event which is common for both articles. Analysis can assist in specifying the differences in content, presentation and concealment of information in articles before and after 2022 and establishing their agendas. The study also shows all the contrast and specifics of news writing.