Дискурсивне конструювання української національної ідентичності у світоглядних наративах

This chapter seeks to look at the multimodal discursive means of Ukrainian national identity construction in worldview narratives during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Approaching the notions of “worldview” and “identity” from a socio-constructionist and socio-cognitive perspectives, we treat them as discursive constructs framing our cognition, perceptions, and interpretations. Identities as well as worldviews are built in discourse in the form of narratives – identity stories that consist of a multitude of stances or subjective positions people take in discourse concerning different issues of life. In this research, the main object of stancetaking is war that Russia launched against a sovereign European country in February, 2022. Consequently, two opposing stances on the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been discovered, and, correspondingly, two feuding ways of Ukrainian national identity discursive construction have been outlined.