Titel
Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany
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Abstract
This article presents a critical qualitative study of two opinion articles, written by two eminent scholars (Jürgen Habermas and Timothy Snyder), on the German government’s hesitant arms supply for Ukraine during the first phase of the Russian war of aggression in 2022. The main aim of the article is the uncovering of the discursive practices of critique performed by two major public intellectuals. This case study thus allows insights into the simplistic representation of the Russo-Ukrainian war in German elite media discourse. The analysis focuses on actor representations and topic limitations and manipulations in the two op-eds. It is shown that both Habermas and Snyder use characteristic ways of social actor representations in their texts which exhibit their allegiances. Furthermore, both of them limit and change topics at the meso- and macro-levels of their texts in order to make their arguments sound. In closing, the critical potential of linguistic discourse analysis is shortly addressed by arguing that the context sensitive application of the categories for analyzing discourse can uncover the internal norms to which authors orient which makes them open for a critical analysis.
Stichwort
Elite media discourseRusso-
Ukrainian warsocial actor
representationtopic
developmentcritical
discourse analysis
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
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Titel
Critical Discourse Studies
ISSN
1740-5904
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Seitenanfang
1
Seitenende
17
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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