CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Akishev, Aktin |
|---|---|
| Title | 'They Started It': Legitimation Of War In Russian Televised News |
| Summary | This thesis explores the social construction of reality occurring in Russian television when covering the Ukrainian conflict. It is puzzling how the public remained unaffected by the sudden change of coverage that switched from active denial that the intervention is planned to covering the actual invasion as natural and necessary. To explore the appeal of the official narrative, the thesis traces discursive changes in Russian television before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Relying on critical discourse analysis literature, a joint legitimation framework combining van Leeuwen’s (2007) legitimation strategies and Machin and Mayr’s multimodal discourse analysis (2012) is applied to a sample of 14 news episodes broadcasted between November 2021 and April 2022. The analysis reveals a preponderance of rationalizing legitimation frames before and moralizing language after the invasion to justify military intervention. At the same time, no other changes are registered either visually or narratively |
| Supervisor | Sata Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/akishev_aktin.pdf |
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