Stylistic, structural and discursive practices in representing the 2014 crimean crisis in the news discourse (based on the coverage by russian speaking editorials of deutsche welle, radio liberty, and RT)

In this thesis, the researcher examines how three Russian-language news outlets — Deutsche Welle, Radio Liberty and RT — framed the 2014 Crimean crisis. Using a corpus of 826 online news items from 20 February to 21 March 2014, the study applies Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis to uncover each outlet’s stylistic, structural and discursive tactics and strategies. The author shows how RT’s “reclamation” rhetoric, DW’s mediating stance, and Radio Liberty’s resistant counter-narrative shape competing political realities in the news discourse by linking ideological inclinations and editorial missions with linguistic choices.