The strategy of constructing a language image of the Ukrainian crisis at the example of selected social media and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda Cover Image

Strategie konstruování jazykového obrazu ukrajinské krize na příkladu vybraných sociálních médií a deníku Komsomolskaja pravda
The strategy of constructing a language image of the Ukrainian crisis at the example of selected social media and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda

Author(s): Eva Niklesová, Ekaterina Shlygina
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: Euromaidan; social media; new propaganda; media manipulation; framing; Komsomolskaya pravda

Summary/Abstract: The present article discusses the role of social media in organizing large-scale social protest movements at the example of organizing Euromaidan where social media represented the key platform for coordinating protest activities. Furthermore, the article deals with the function of the media in the context of the so-called hybrid war in which the media became the key offensive “soft” instrument which has largely hit the course of events. The last part of the article analyzes the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda to find out how it informed about the Ukrainian crisis. The special attention focuses on the analysis of the strategies that are connected with the framework concept mainly related to the choice of expressive lexical units, stereotype phrases, the narrative presentation of events etc.

  • Issue Year: XI/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 21-31
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Czech