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Initial Insights into War-Time Media Communication: The Air Raid Alert Genre in Ukrainian Media (2022–2024) and Its Ritual-Symbolic Framing

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The article examines the issues of ritualization and symbolization in the representation of war within the Ukrainian media landscape through a specific genre of emergency air raid alert notifications as well as its expansion to other media genres based on the analysis of two Ukrainian Telegram channels. The main focus of the article is to identify the discursive, cognitive, semantic, communicative, and pragmatic characteristics of the media framing of the alert genre as well as multimodal, primarily linguistic, means of their expression. The article explores not only the alert genre and its components, along with their symbolic load and ritual potential, but also highlights their importance in establishing a genre network in the coverage of war in Ukraine. The conducted research on ritual theories, encompassing the anthropological and sociological approaches to studying ritual as a universal cultural phenomenon, as well as the study of the specifics of media ritual and its framing tools, allowed to lay the foundations for developing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ritualized practices within the media coverage of war.

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