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Silencing alternative voices in times of war in Ukraine and Russia
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Baysha O., Chukasheva K.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has turned out to be not only a full-fledged military conflict but also a war against oppositional journalism. In Ukraine, several independent journalists and bloggers were also arrested for “spreading Russian propaganda," but the the violations of freedom of expression in Ukraine have not become a popular subject of academic analysis. With the aim of contributing to this research area, this chapter discusses how both Russian and Ukrainian authorities have been striving to shut down alternative discourses, trying to stabilize meanings favourable to their political goals. The chapter also analyses four cases of convicted oppositionists, comparing their interpretations of the war, and tracing what alternative meanings were silenced and marginalized.
Sebryuk A., США и Канада: экономика, политика, культура 2026 Т. 56 № 2 С. 65–82
This article explores African American Christian preaching as a unique phenomenon of religious discourse that has played a significant role in shaping the collective identity and historical memory of African Americans. The sermon is examined as a hybrid form of ethnocultural rhetoric that interweaves elements of West African oral tradition, Christian homiletics, and American public ...
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Islentyeva Anna, Tolochin I., Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
This book offers an analytical tool for identifying and analysing the linguistic mechanisms that shape American national identity in public discourses. Drawing on methods from (critical) discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, the authors provide insights into various levels of discourse structures, consider the social and political climate of the US at different stages of its ...
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Микулинский А. Д., RHEMA. РЕМА 2025 № 3 С. 45–61
The paper examines the principles of analyzing the discursive strategies and tactics of sports and eSports casters’. The author highlights researchers’ lack of attention to the eSports commentary and raises the problem of its specificity. The article contains the systematized information required to study this specificity through further comparison of strategies of sports and eSports ...
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Vershinin I., Europe-Asia Studies 2025 Vol. 77 No. 9 P. 1458–1477
This research article delves into the intricate interplay between masculinity and the Russia–Ukraine conflict, focusing on the discursive strategies employed by Russian political elites to construct and legitimise narratives of power and identity. Drawing on official statements, speeches and Telegram posts of political elites, the analysis reveals how traditional gender norms are instrumentalised to assert ...
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Иванова Н. А., Novikov D., Fan X., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2025 Т. 30 № 1 С. 172–185
One of the possible scenarios for resolving the turbulence in world politics that is being observed is a switch to a multipolar world order. Russia and China are major powers that have stated in the public affairs that a multipolar world order is a real option to a unipolar one. The article is exploring the ...
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Zhyrun I., Russian Politics 2023 Vol. 8 No. 2 P. 165–180
Ukraine’s aspirations for NATO membership have been a source of contention between Russia and Ukraine for decades. At the same time, domestic debates in Ukraine on relations with NATO have also been a divisive issue for Ukraine’s ruling political elites. These conflicts culminated in 2022, when Russia launched a military offensive against Ukraine claiming that its movement towards NATO was an ...
Added: September 19, 2024
NY: Routledge, 2024.
This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of dissident perspectives in the West and the information quality and diversity on social media.
Along with presenting original, empirical studies on how mainstream media in countries as diverse as Israel, the Czech Republic, Ghana, and the Netherlands have ...
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Ostyakova Lidiia, Petukhova K., Smilga V. et al., , in: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference “Dialogue 2023”Т. 22.: М.: [б.и.], 2023.
This paper is devoted to examining the hierarchical and multilayered taxonomy of Speech Functions, encompassing pragmatics, turn-taking, feedback, and topic switching in open-domain conversations. To evaluate the distinctiveness of closely related pragmatic classes, we conducted comparative analyses involving both expert annotators and crowdsourcing workers. We then carried out classification experiments on a manually annotated dataset ...
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Ostyakova Lidiia, Smilga V., Petukhova K. et al., , in: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.: Prague: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. P. 242–254.
This paper deals with the task of annotating open-domain conversations with speech functions. We propose a semi-automated method for annotating dialogs following the topic-oriented, multi-layered taxonomy of speech functions with the use of hierarchical guidelines using Large Language Models. These guidelines comprise simple questions about the topic and speaker change, sentence types, pragmatic aspects of ...
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Vershinin I., Europe-Asia Studies 2023 Vol. 75 No. 9 P. 1560–1578
Utilising discourse analysis to evaluate Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov’s public speeches as part of public diplomacy, this study deconstructs the discursive practices of Russian political elites in Russia–Japan relations. The data analysis demonstrates that, when speaking from a position of power, Putin and Lavrov delegitimise Japan’s political decision-making sovereignty ...
Added: April 6, 2024
Argaillot J., Diab el Harake H., Dorskaïa A. et al., Grenoble: La Geste, 2023.
s it not the case that any attempt to legitimize politics by disjoining these dimensions of human experience - history, memory and power - is doomed to failure? It is from this intuition in the form of a question - and from the curiosity to verify its validity - that was born the ambition to ...
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Vadim Kozlov, Bocharova A., China Report 2023 Vol. 59 No. 4 P. 369–387
In a short period, from 2016 to 2020, China has transformed from the main trade and economic partner of the United States, during the years of Barack Obama’s presidency, to one of the leading opponents of the US administration. This article analyses the reasons for the growing tension in US–China relations and the trade war ...
Added: October 16, 2023
Dmitriev O. A., Journal of Business Theory and Practice 2023 P. 46–54
News development is currently affected by digitalization. Therefore, media scholars using digital means to cover the news must develop the so-called "multimedia mindset" among professional journalists and media students. It is not enough to teach the technology-the scholars have to embrace new journalism tools to incorporate them with story planning activities. This article aims to ...
Added: September 27, 2023