title: Language and war in Ukraine: Unofficial names in the socio-group “Ukrainian military” as a marker of interpersonal communication
abstract: This article focuses on an essential component of the military slang of soldiers and commanders during the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2014-2022, in particular their unofficial names.The primary task of the research is to characterise the lexical basis of forming unofficial names among the Ukrainian military.This is done by exploring the conditions of its development and comparing it with the lexical basis of nicknames in the Russian military.From a theoretical perspective, the analysis is premised
journal: Onoma