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War and Language

Russian Invasion of Ukraine in National Political Discourses

Edited by Radoslav Štefančík 

Published: 15 November 2024 [Language Series: 4]

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This book focuses on the war in Ukraine and how politicians commented on this issue in the first months after the invasion. The reactions of heads of state to the Russian invasion of Ukraine have varied, even in the democratic world. While an overwhelming rejectionist view was expressed in Western Europe, politicians in some Central and Eastern European have demonstrated a difficulty seeing the Kremlin as the culprit for the war.

The main aims of the book are to examine how politicians in selected countries reacted to the war, to identify the main actors of the political discourse and how the political elites formed their positions, to analyze the content of the discourse and how the various supported or opposing positions on the war were formulated, and to examine the linguistic means and strategies employed by the political elite. The authors examined political discourse in Slovakia, Hungary, France, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Austria, and compared and contrasted the features of political discourse in countries with a long democratic tradition with those in Central and Eastern European countries which were under non-democratic regimes before 1989. There seems to be a tendency to push political discourse to a different plane in countries with a communist experience, as we found solid, pro-Russian sentiments in Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic that can attenuate attitudes towards Russian aggression.

CONTENTS:

• INTRODUCTION – Radoslav Štefančík
• UKRAINE – Svitlana Goloshchuk
• RUSSIA – Martina Uličná
• SLOVAKIA – Radoslav Štefančík and Eva Stradiotová
• HUNGARY – Žaneta Pavlíková
• AUSTRIA – Katarína Seresová
• GERMANY – Silvia Adamcová
• FRANCE – Iveta Rizeková
• SPAIN – Mária Spišiaková and Nina Mocková
• UNITED KINGDOM – Ildikó Némethová

* This collective monograph is a part of research projects of the Ministry of Education, Family and Sports of the Slovak Re-public, such as KEGA/ePortfolio as Pedagogy Facilitating Integrative Learning 012EU-4/2023; KEGA project No. 003EU-4/2024, “The Implementation of the New Methods of Knowledge Testing in the Educational Process”; VEGA 1/0075/24 “Political Discourse in Slovakia in the Context of the War in Ukraine” and of the Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resi-lience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00045 and no. 09I03-03-V01-00118.

CREDITS: Cover Photo: Dmytro Tolokonov on unsplash.com

Product Details:

Language Series: 4
ISBN: 978-1-80135-302-1 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-80135-303-8 (digital)
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Published: 15 November 2024
Language: English
Pages: 221
Binding: Paperback
Interior Ink: Black & white
Weight (approx.): 0.55 kg
Dimensions (approx.): 15cm wide x 23cm tall