Propaganda in Russian Media Coverage of the War in Ukraine: Emotion vs. Reason

Golubev, Vadim (2024)

Article / Letter to editor

Generally accepted definitions of propaganda feature a prominent role that emotional appeal plays in making communication propagandistic. This paper is an attempt to explain how Russian propaganda works, and why it is so effective, by looking at media content through the prism of interaction between emotion and reason in Russian media discourse. A logico-pragma-stylistic analysis is applied to the coverage of the Ukraine war by the influential Russian daily Izvestiia.

• emotion
• emotional appeal
• logico-pragma-stylistic analysis
• media discourse
• propaganda
• rational appeal
• reason
• Russian media
• speech acts
• Ukraine war

• All authors: Golubev, Vadim
• Editor(s): Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
• Date: 2024
• Journal: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation
• Pages: 286 - 296
• Conference: 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
• Date: 2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07
• Location: Leiden, The Netherlands