Discourses and emotions in narration of the annexation of Crimean peninsula by the Russian Federation
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2015

The aim of this thesis is to analyze how the annexation of Crimea by the Russian&#13;\nFederation is narrated in the leading political discourse and media discourse. This is done&#13;\nby examining two main cases that represent the discourses, a political speech of president&#13;\nPutin and a documentary film by Andrey Kondrashov, through the encoding/decoding&#13;\nmodel of Stuart Hall. The thesis first identifies the relevant theoretical stances that explain&#13;\nhow using the approach of cul