DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE AS A REFLECTION OF A POLITICAL STANCE REGARDING THE CONFLICT IN EASTERN UKRAINE
Journal: Scientific notes of V I Vernadsky Taurida National University Series Philology Journalism
Year: 2021

The paper features the results of a content analysis of the speeches delivered at the 8726th meeting of UN Security Council on the situation in eastern Ukraine held on 18 February 2020, with the specific goal to explore the correlation between certain speech markers and the political stand of the speaker, in this particular case -each member country's stance on the agenda and the extent they choose to show their position between the two parties of the conflict, Russia and Ukraine. As a genre of