The paper provides a brief historical overview of the emergence and semantic enrichment of the concept of cultural memory in modern philological research, going back to the works of German historians (J. and A. Assman) and Soviet philologists (Y. M. Lotman, B. M. Gasparov and Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School). It is shown that in modern philological science it is most productive to conduct the analysis of cultural memory and its dynamics on the basis of the theory of precedent phenomena by Y. N. Karaulov. It is the study of the precedent fund of linguoculture and the intertextual thesaurus of personality that makes possible to fully reconstruct the verbal component of the cultural memory of a particular linguoculture and detect or predict the inevitable sections of the generation gap.

Modern philology is increasingly turning to interdisciplinary problems, which include corporality, which is studied at the intersection of biology, medicine, cognitive science and philosophy. At the same time, the interest of linguistics in the conceptualization and verbalization of bodily and psychological individual experience leads to the need to study ego-documents that tell about the most difficult, traumatic life situations (hunger, war, disability, fatal illness, loss of loved ones, etc.). The purpose of the work is to explication of the specifics of the perception of the corporality of a resident of besieged Leningrad through the verbalization of one’s own and others’ bodily experience. The number of specific elements of the conceptualization of corporality (hunger, dystrophy, cold, trauma, etc.) were revealed. An analysis of the memories of the blockade survivors convincingly proves that the body was perceived by the starving inhabitants as deformed, destroyed and striving for inevitable death. Reflection on the body and corporality inevitably leads to the realization of the rigid connection of corporality with the psyche and morality. Such specific forms of comprehension and verbalization of the physicality of blockade runners as hunger trauma, winter trauma, and alienation of the body are identified and analyzed. The analysis of the traumatic bodily experience of the inhabitants of the besieged Leningrad can serve as a further development of linguistic studies of both corporality and traumatic experience.

Based on the concepts of such linguists and linguodidactists as D. Crystal, G. de Matos, A. Curtis, P. Friedrich and others, the work provides a brief historical excursion and analyzes the reasons for the emergence, subject and aims of the new direction in linguistics - peace linguistics as an independent area of humanitarian research (Peace Studies). The specificity of the use and the rich potential of the ideas of Peace Linguistics is demonstrated in the linguodidactic aspect. It is shown that the analysis of lexicographic sources can be carried out not only from the traditional point of view by representing linguocultural knowledge in them, but also from the point of view of the intrinsic concepts of chaos and order, conflict and harmony, war and peace.

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The situation of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a new and exacerbated number of old social problems, including social inequality, the growth of social aggression, and the upscaling of agonal communication in Runet. One of the new conflict-generating points is the attitude towards vaccination, which divided people into pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers. In order to develop the strategies for community response to socially dangerous activities of anti-vaxxers, it is necessary to rely on scientific data obtained as a result of analysis of vaccination opponents' argumentation system and discourse description. The paper reveals the main arguments of anti-vaxxers and presents the linguistic-and-legal problems that arise in Internet communication while discussing the topic of vaccinations against COVID-19. For the explication of aggressive rhetoric, a content analysis of the largest group of anti-vaxxers "The COVID-Resistance Movement" on the VKontakte social network was carried out. In addition to highlighting and describing the most common arguments of anti-vaccinationists, examples of complex (moral and metaphysical) aggressive arguments were given (after the concept of H. Kusse). Aggressive verbal behaviour in some cases leads to a direct violation of the law – both new articles of the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation related to the COVID-19 pandemic (for example, on misinformation), and traditional articles related to agonal communication (for example, extremism and racism).