Secondary nominations in the context of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine

The article investigates modern secondary nominations, in particular metaphors as a wide range of linguistic and stylistic means that allow speakers to turn the designation of new realities and concepts of modern colorful life in Ukraine into certain vivid signs not only of individual objects, but sometimes of entire situations related to them.It is found that modern metaphors reflect the mood of society, convey the attitude of speakers to certain realities and phenomena of the present, and formalize their assessment. The attention is paid not only to the linguistic aspect of the lexicon functioning, but also to the ideological motives that determine the choice of the speaker’s way of expressing his/her opinion. The archetypal oppositions of friend and foe in the oppositions: friend – foe, light – darkness, living – dead, we – they are analyzed. A systematic description of the secondary nomination is important not only for generalizing this linguistic material, but also for determining its relevance for the trends in the development of the cognitive and communicative space of the modern Ukrainian language. Keywords: secondary nomination, metaphor, functions of metaphors, opposition own – alien, ukrainian lexicon.