Projektnummer

0059400

Zusammenfassung

Since the protests of the Euromaidan, the Ukraine has become a space where conflicting discourses of legitimation and competing values are staged. In the course of this, the conflicting parties resort to both rational argumentation and aggressive rhetorics, depending on their goals of communication. Based on the linguistic representations in the current Ukrainian conflict this project analyses the various argumentative strands and strategies which are developed in national discourses and in other modes of communication. Political speeches and legal documents, in combination with radio,...