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The article presentsresults of the study and practical analysis of the phenomenon of the influence of ethnolinguistic identity on the formation of the language image, as well as the psychological well-being and personal health of Ukrainian-speaking and Russian- speaking Ukrainian migrants in Poland. The article attempts to reveal the value of the welcoming status of linguistic identity as a means to achieve the psychological well-being of a personality in a modern multicultural society. The prospects for studying the impact of ethnolinguistic identity and psychological well-being and the personal health of representatives of Ukrainian language communities and migrant groups with prediction of possible spheres of application of the obtained results are also described.

The article analyzes the formation of speech protests in Ukraine in the early XXI century. Particular attention is paid to the lexeme майдан in its new social-political usage,to its functional potentiality, the role in the modern derivational nomination. The formation of new specialized and expessive-evaluated meanings of the lexemes революція, марш, віче was determined. The influence of new meanings on the paradigmatic and syntagmatic possibilities of words was investigated.It was found that the lexem Maidan and other activated word – have long learned in Ukrainian language specific borrowing or lexems, and therefore, Ukrainian developing this area of its socio -political lexicon through internal resources, proving stability and identity of modern Ukrainian nomination and serves proof that we are not threatened by Ukrainian analized language version globish – ukrainish. New nominations confirm the new relationship in cognitive consciousness community and its reflection in language awareness and implementation of new linguistic units . In reality of modern Ukraine Maidan – socially significant for Ukrainian language and consciousness phenomenon that leaves a mark in the Ukrainian language, because language is inseparable from the history of his people. It is doubtless that the words of the street Euromaidan – words witnesses, speech signals , the original «storage unit events in our memory and they act like flashes that instantly illuminate these events». Exploring new areas such as cognitive space Ukrainian language opens up prospects for the theoretical understanding of trends in the lexicon of new social and political conditions of use of the Ukrainian language.

Introduction. This article exposes manipulative impact of the political media discourse of the Russian Internet resource sputniknews.com for September 2016, represented by English-language political media texts about events in Ukraine.Purpose. The purpose of the article is to disclose the role of language in exerting a manipulative impact in the frame of the political media discourse in question.Results. The article holds that immanent chacarteristics of language and its units, in particular lexical and syntactic, make it possible to covertly (manipulatively) affect public consciousness, shaping or changing it. It also shows that the language of the political media discourse differes from the ordinary, every-day language in the way information is presented, i.e. facts and events are named and assessed. Thus, a purposeful use of nominative, axiological, and rhetorical linguistic means makes it possible to covertly insert in people's mind certain ideas, values, and beliefs, which is a manipulative impact on the public consciousness. Originality. Originality of this article is provided by a complex approach to the analysis of the political media discourse. The article contributes to the discourse analysis, in particular to the studies of its communicative, pragmatic and linguistic-pragmatic characteristics.The perspective of the problem under discussion can be seen in the analysis of the role of quazi-linguistic and extra-linguistic means that, by accompanying linguistic means, are used to exert a manipulative impact on public consciousness.Conclusion. Thus, according to the obtained data, English-language political media texts about events in Ukraine that represent the political media discourse of the Russian Internet resource sputniknews.com for September 2016 typically exert a manipulative impact on public consciousness. It is done by a purposeful use of linguistic means that provide various interpretations of concrete facts, political events, and social reality with the aim to orchestrate their understanding and evaluation.