Discourses of War and Peace : 21st Century Perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilie, Cornelia.

Series:

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.355

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--History.

War.

Peace--History.

Peace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

The goal of this book is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations, divergent goal settings and ideological confrontations.

Contents:

Intro

Discursive (mis)representations of war and peace in cross-national and historical perspectives

1. Introduction

2. Reconceptualizing war, peace, and neutrality as central keywords

3. Discourses of war

4. Discourses of peace

5. Challenging the war-peace dichotomy

6. Overview of the book

References

Part I (Re)contextualizing narratives of war, peace and neutrality

Still-not-yet

1. Overview

2. Perpetual war for perpetual peace

3. Data, analytic framework, and method

4. Analysis

4.1 Realized peace

4.1.1 Peace as circumstantial element

At peace

Peace in

4.1.2 Peace as participant

4.2 Unrealized peace

4.2.1 Peace as circumstantial element

To peace

Of peace

Cause

Construct

Temporal

For peace

Battle for peace

Policy for peace

Quest for peace

4.2.2 Peace as participant

4.2.3 Epithets and collocates of peace

5. The perpetual quest for peace

War-peace dialectic revisited

2. Neutrality in war and in peace - Sweden's case

3. Corpus data and theoretical approaches

4. The concept of Swedish neutrality

4.1 Swedish neutrality and non-alignment

4.2 Sweden's security and (military) defence

4.3 Swedish neutrality and national identity

4.4 Swedish neutrality, solidarity and sovereignty

5. Contradictory keyword framings in Swedish political discourse

5.1 Definitions and recontextualisations of political keywords

5.2 Re-definitions and reconceptualisations of political keywords

6. Keywords and argumentation strategies

6.1 Arguments from values

6.2 Arguments from consequences

6.3 Goal-based practical reasoning

7. Concluding remarks

India's war on its history of humiliation

2. Analysing discursive reconceptualizations of war.

2.1 Theoretical framework

2.2 Methodology

2.3 Data

3. Analysis of the data

3.1 The collusion of educational and political discourses

3.2 Correcting history to build a New India

3.3 Rewriting history to empower majoritarian politics

4. Conclusion

Websites

The long, unsuccessful war

2. Objectives, research issues and analytical approaches

3. First phase

3.1 The deeply felt impact of the Tsushima defeat at all societal levels

3.2 Discourses of Russian war testimonies

3.3 Discourses of official vs. subversive Russian press

3.4 Public vs. private discourses about the war

3.4.1 Public discourse in official war-related statements

3.4.2 Interfaces of public-private discourses in literary works

4. Second phase

4.1 The Soviet re-interpretation of the Russian defeat through literary censorship

5. Third phase

5.1 Reshaping the memory of the past

5.2 Discourses about war in Russian history textbooks

6. Conclusions

Part II Contesting vs. justifying Russia's war on Ukraine in the discursive battlefield

Vladimir Putin's war rhetoric between cold reflection and furious hatred

2. The Crimea address (2014)

2.1 The selective look at history

2.2 "Historical"

2.2.1 Faulty historical analogies

2.3 Aggressiveness9

Digression

3. The address of September 30, 2022

3.1 The shrinking importance of national history

3.2 The new construal of the enemy

3.2.1 Conflicting values

3.3 What does Russia stand for?

3.4 Heightened aggression

3. Conclusions

Electronic resources (last retrieval on October 16, 2025)

Divergent visions on the war in Ukraine

2. Political speeches in times of conflict

3. Material and method

4. Results

4.1 The overview.

4.2 Key semantic domains in Putin's speeches

4.1.1 Main themes

4.1.2 Other themes

4.3 Key semantic domains in Zelenskyy's speeches

4.3.1 Main themes

4.3.2 Other themes

4.4 Comparing the corpora

4.4.1 Geographical names

4.4.2 Negatives

4.4.3 Pronouns

5. Discussion

Appendix 1. List of simplified semantic categories used in Figure 1

Debating the Ukraine war in the German public

2. Theoretical background

2.1 Recontextualization

2.2 Argumentation schemes

2.3 Legitimation strategies

2.4 Research questions

3. Data and methodology

4. The reference texts

4.1 Implicit recontextualization - actor representations

4.2 Argumentation

5. The uptaking opinion texts

5.1 Implicit recontextualization - actor representations

5.2 Argumentation and explicit recontextualization

6. Discussion

7. Conclusions

Peace into war transformation in news discourse on Ukraine

2. Methods and material

2.1 Rhetorical stages of analysis

2.2 Cognitive method of categorisation

2.2.1 Views on categorization

2.2.2 Image-schematic vantage construction of categories

2.3 Material

3. Corpus analysis in four steps

3.1 Signals of the breach of peace period in Ukraine

3.1.1 Relevant use of the keyword Unrest in the initiative stage

3.1.2 Relevant use of the keyword Stand-off in the public tension stage

3.1.3 Significant uses of the keyword Conflict in the confrontation stage

3.1.4 Shifting shades of meaning of the keywords Conflict and Crisis in the impasse stage

3.2 Signals of impasse period in Ukraine

3.2.1 Shifting shades of meaning of the keywords conflict and crisis

3.2.2 Contextual differences between the use of the keywords Conflict and Crisis.

3.3 Signals of the pre-war period in Ukraine

3.3.1 New uses of Crisis as a major keyword

3.3.2 Uses of the keyword Tension to emphasise the imminence of war

3.3.3 Shift from the verbs of speaking to agentive verbs

3.4 Signals of the period of the beginning of a full-scale war

3.4.1 Uses of the keyword Conflict in association with To invade and Invasion

3.4.2 Uses of units War in Ukraine and Ukraine war to highlight the intensified confrontation

3.4.3 The keyword Crisis in the stage of intensified confrontation

4. Discussion and conclusions

Comment on ethics

Modification of media's visual identity as a response to the war in Ukraine

2.1 From visual discourse to visual communication

2.2 Corporate identity

3. Methodology

3.1 Cross-country approach

3.2 Methods and research sample

3.2.1 Data section

4.1 Media categories

4.2 Geographical reach

4.3 Types of modifications

4.3.1 Colour schemes

4.3.2 Iconography

4.3.3 Slogans and taglines

4.3.4 Mixed modifications

4.4 Durability of modifications

Appendix. Table 1 Research sample

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4383-2

9789027243836

OCLC:

1586549060