Національні та інтернаціональні невербальні елементи в українському військовому дискурсі

As it is known, the communicative culture of the military greatly differs from the communicative culture of the civil. At the same time, it also includes verbal and nonverbal elements. As for the latter, there are not many works which deal with their peculiarities in the military discourse of different countries. Taking into account nowadays social conditions such as integration of Ukrainian army into world community and its strengthening our research can be considered as topical. The aim of our research is to determine national and international nonverbal elements of the Ukrainian military discourse. The object is the Ukrainian military discourse. The subject is national and international elements of the Ukrainian military discourse. In order to achieve the aim we need to solve the following objectives: 1) to give a definition of nonverbal elements; 2) to determine their types and roles in the communication; 3) to analyze the regulatory documents of Ukrainian and US servicemen. The results of our research show that a set of nonverbal elements is international but the ways of their performance are specifically national. The differences can be seen in the following aspects: 1) military greeting; 2) ranks; 3) appearance of servicemen; 4) drills; 5) marching step; 6) position during the national anthems. So, there are both semantic barriers and cultural differences in the process of exchanging nonverbal elements. This can create substantial impediments in understanding. Thus, it is necessary to use nonverbal elements corresponding with the ideas communicants are going to present