The Functioning of the "War" Lexeme in Ernest Hemingway's Journalism
The article is devoted to the study of the lexeme «war» in journalistic texts written by Ernest Hemingway during the Second World War. The article considers the meaning of the lexeme «war», provides the context of the lexeme, and identifies the main themes and features. The Second World War had a huge impact on the writer's work. In such journalistic articles as «The Writer and War» and «The End of Something», the author tries to comprehend the phenomenon of war, to express his attitude to what is happening, to understand how war affects a person. There is hardly a person among readers and lovers of literature who is unfamiliar with the name of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). The writer of the «lost generation», Nobel Prize winner and prominent journalist of his era, he is best known for his novel «A Farewell to Arms» about the events of the First World War. His later works, including the story «The Old Man and the Sea» and the collection of stories «The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories», brought him the fame of a workers' writer, which made him one of the few American authors who were massively published in the USSR.