Online Pravda’s Communicative Intentions Regarding the War in Ukraine: A CDA-Based Study of the Website’s Opinion Articles

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Intercultural Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI:10.36923/jicc.v24i2.575

Mohammed El-Astal, Abdulaziz Al-Mutawa

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Abstract

This research paper, based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), aimed to uncover how the opinion articles published on Pravda.ru discursively depicted the war in Ukraine and the parties involved. To achieve this, two elements of CDA analysis, namely presupposition and structural opposition, were examined. The first element was scrutinized to determine how Pravda.ru depicted the war in Ukraine (RQ1), while the second element was analyzed to understand how Pravda.ru portrayed the parties involved, whether directly or indirectly, in the war (RQ2). For this study, 83 articles were subject to critical discourse analysis, covering the period from February 25, 2022, to February 24, 2023, the first year of the war. The results obtained from this study indicated that Pravda.ru employed various techniques to construct presuppositions and structural oppositions. Pravda.ru portrayed the war as a 'special military operation' and a 'proxy war.' The former, characterized as a euphemism, aimed to mitigate the impact of the word, presupposing that the events did not constitute aggression against Ukraine. The latter presupposed that Russia was a victim of a conspiracy. Furthermore, the results revealed that Pravda.ru used stigmatization and religious affiliations and terms to construct structural oppositions.

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在线《真理报》关于乌克兰战争的传播意图：基于 CDA 的网站观点文章研究

本研究论文以批判性话语分析（CDA）为基础，旨在揭示《真理报》（Pravda.ru）上发表的评论文章是如何对乌克兰战争和相关各方进行话语描述的。为此，我们研究了 CDA 分析的两个要素，即预设和结构性对立。对第一个要素的研究旨在确定 Pravda.ru 是如何描述乌克兰战争的（问题 1），而对第二个要素的分析旨在了解 Pravda.ru 是如何描述直接或间接卷入战争的各方的（问题 2）。本研究对 83 篇文章进行了批判性话语分析，时间跨度为 2022 年 2 月 25 日至 2023 年 2 月 24 日，即战争爆发的第一年。研究结果表明，《真理报》采用了多种技术来构建预设和结构性对立。真理报》将战争描绘成 "特殊军事行动 "和 "代理人战争"。前者是一种委婉的说法，旨在减轻该词的影响，预设事件并不构成对乌克兰的侵略。后者则认为俄罗斯是阴谋的受害者。此外，研究结果表明，《真理报》利用污名化、宗教归属和术语来构建结构性对立。

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Journal of Intercultural Communication Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： The goal of the journal is to promote research but also education and training in the area of intercultural communication. The journal is an outgrowth of the activities of NIC – the Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication. The great interest shown in the activities of NIC have pointed to a need for more journals employing a peer review procedure within the area of intercultural communication. By starting this journal, we hope to encourage more research and to facilitate contacts between interested researchers as well as to provide better possibilities for reviewed publication. We welcome contributions and reviews concerning all areas of intercultural communication.