Olena Kobzar

Olena Kobzar is a Professor at the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology at Lugansk National University and the Department of Business Foreign Languages at Poltava University of Economics and Trade (Ukraine). Her research focuses on the intersection of political discourse, lexical semantics, and intercultural communication, particularly analyzing German political rhetoric and media coverage related to Ukraine. She has published extensively on Angela Merkel's speeches, postmodern narrative structures, and pandemic-related linguistic innovations.

Research Interests:

• Discourse Analysis of political and crisis communication
• Lexical-Semantic Innovations in modern German
• Translation of cultural realia in literature
• Postmodern narrative structures and multimodal storytelling
• Intercultural communication in German-Ukrainian contexts

Selected Publications: Kobzar has contributed to academic discussions on political speeches, corona-era neologisms, and postmodern literary analysis. Her recent work explores how semantic reinterpretation in political discourse follows linguistic laws and reflects societal shifts.