Rhetorical Evaluation of Vladimir Putin’s ‘Declaration of War on Ukraine’
Journal: Skase Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
Year: 2025

This article critically examines Vladimir Putin’s “Declaration of War on Ukraine” using Reisigl and Wodak’s Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to explore how Putin employs rhetorical strategies to legitimize the war against Ukraine. The findings reveal that Putin strategically uses nomination, predication, argumentation, perspectivization, and intensification strategies to construct an ideologically polarized geopolitical reality and justify the conflict. He primarily relies on building a leade