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Current Research Journal of Philological Sciences

Peer Reviewed | Open Access | E-ISSN: 2767-3758
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Building A Digital Corpus Architecture for War Terminology Research: Extracting Opinion and Action Narratives from Ukrainian News Media

Building A Digital Corpus Architecture for War Terminology Research: Extracting Opinion and Action Narratives from Ukrainian News Media

Authors

  • Aiko Nakamura
    Department of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Kyoto International Institute of Humanities, Japan
  • Haruto Fujisawa
    Faculty of Letters and Philological Research, Tokyo Metropolitan University of Humanities, Japan

Keywords:

Digital corpus architecture War terminology Corpus linguistics

Abstract

The rapid expansion of digital news ecosystems has transformed the study of conflict discourse by creating unprecedented volumes of textual data that reflect political positions, public attitudes, and strategic narratives. This study develops a digital corpus architecture for investigating war-related terminology and narrative structures in Ukrainian news media, focusing on the extraction and analysis of opinion and action narratives. The research integrates corpus linguistics principles, web-based data collection approaches, and computational text analysis techniques to construct a systematic framework for identifying lexical patterns associated with conflict representation. Drawing upon corpus-driven methodologies, the study examines how war terminology functions as a linguistic mechanism for framing military events, political decisions, humanitarian concerns, and social responses. The proposed architecture combines automated data acquisition, corpus annotation, concordance analysis, collocation measurement, and multidimensional interpretation to analyze large-scale news discourse. The theoretical foundation is informed by corpus-based discourse analysis, where context and pragmatic functions determine the meaning of linguistic choices (Adolphs, 2008). The findings demonstrate that a structured digital corpus enables researchers to identify recurring war lexicons, ideological positioning, and narrative transformations across news sources. The research contributes a methodological framework for digital humanities, media linguistics, and conflict discourse studies by demonstrating how computational corpus approaches can reveal patterns of meaning construction within contemporary war reporting.

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