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Rusijos politinių diskursų prieštaringumai: filosofinė diskurso analizė
The Contradictions of Russia’s Political Discourses: Philosophical Discourse Analyses

Author(s): Tomas Kavaliauskas
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political history, Philosophy of Language, Politics and communication, Comparative politics, Theory of Communication
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: discourse; propaganda; Russia; Baltic States; meanings; objectivity; ideology;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses three Russian discourses that are of a propagandistic type: the Victory Day, Tsar-Russia, and Russian Idea discourse. These discourses are compared in search for their contradictions. The author also pays attention to the overlapping meanings in these discourses. For the purpose of discourse analysis a philosophical method is applied. It integrates such terminology as discourse closure, rejection of meanings, objectivity as ideologically constructed reality, the will to truth. Also the perspective of cultural studies is used. The Russian cultural perspective is explained. Eclectic symbols of ideologically contradictory meanings reflect contradictions and paradoxes of the Russian political discourse. The ideologists of contemporary Russia do ignore such logical contradictions in the discourses; rather they selectively manipulate with the different meanings.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 99
  • Page Range: 49-57
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Lithuanian