Affiliation:
1. Universidad de Navarra
Abstract
Abstract
Media discourse around particular subjects comes to shape people’s understanding of that topic. In particular, the
words used to describe situations of violence and conflict may colour public perceptions. This paper identifies the main words
used to describe the Russia-Ukraine conflict by three international media outlets, Al Jazeera, Euronews and
CGTN, from February to May 2022. Following the methodology of corpus-assisted discourse studies, it analyses
the nouns used and their most frequent collocates, showing how these reveal the different ways the war was represented in these
three media. The results are discussed in the light of differing theories concerning Chinese and Western stances to the conflict,
illustrating media roles in the shaping and reproduction of dominant discourses.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company