Mediated Discourses of Conflict across Languages and Genres (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This open access edited book provides a unique entry point to the understanding of politicized journalistic practices as well as rhetorical and linguistic strategies recruited for the coverage of the full-scale war in Ukraine initiated by the Russian Federation in 2022. It consists of a comprehensive set of studies on mediated political discourses from countries neighboring Ukraine – Poland and Romania – presented against the backdrop of English-language reporting of the conflict. The individual studies in the collection explore conflict discourses using either corpus-assisted comparative approaches or interpretative case studies of specific phenomena across languages and genres. The authors explore questions of terminology and representation, attending to the uses of historical references, strategic and marginal narratives, or polarization and solidarity frames. Basing on a representative dataset from an international project (CORECON, 2024-2026), the authors trace the level of emotional engagement and look at textual and visual (de)legitimization of political stances. They document the dynamic nature of contemporary war coverage, given a variety of patterns of reception of the discourses of conflict. The collection also highlights a range of problematic journalistic practices in emerging media formats. It compares mainstream and amateur journalism and demystifies some ideological underpinnings in politicized coverage of conflict, for example in relation to representations of peace, national security or refugees. Embedded theoretically and methodologically in both discourse studies and media studies, the book offers a mix of innovative approaches that enable nuanced insights and inspire further research on mediated conflict discourses and war coverage across genres and languages. 

“In a carefully reasoned and methodologically transparent approach, the collection explores war media discourses in Romania and Poland, as well as in a comparative sample of English-language coverage. It offers a number of well-founded scientific studies of terminology, stance-making, narratives, visuals, news values, and representations of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. By systematically analyzing stylistic, discursive and rhetorical strategies, the authors also interrogate current editorial practices. They highlight critical issues with media outputs and ideologies co-produced by structural and technological affordances of online conflict coverage.”   -- Prof. Valentyna Ushchyna, Chair of the English Philology Department, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine