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Университет Лейдена открыл позицию аспиранта для проекта "Russian Narratives of War".

The PhD-project is part of the larger project (NWO-L) called “The language and argumentation of Russian propaganda” which consists of two PhDs and one postdoc and which is led by Egbert Fortuin (project leader, Russian Studies) together with Henrike Jansen and Peter Burger.

What are you going to do?

This PhD-position focuses on the narratives and their linguistic-argumentative properties that are used in Russia to influence the Russian-speaking population in that country to support the government in general and to rally behind the war in Ukraine in particular (period 2014-2024). This project aims at answering research questions such as: What narratives are used in Russian propaganda in general, specifically those concerning the war in Ukraine? How do arguments and rhetorical frames (including the use of words, expressions, and systematic metaphors) play a role in these narratives? How have these narratives evolved and been adapted over time (2014-2024)? Are there particular properties of argumentation, rhetoric and language which are typical for Russian propaganda?

The data will be collected from speeches by Putin, texts from Russian press agencies, texts from Russian state media and propaganda spread across new media channels that cannot directly be linked to the Russian government. The data will consist of words, verbal and multimodal expressions, and more generally frames and arguments, which play a key part in the narratives relevant for this subproject. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods will be used to analyze the data and the project may involve Natural Language Processing methodologies. The focus will be on the semantic-pragmatic analysis of words, expressions using different theoretical frameworks (for example, rhetorical frame analysis, (cognitive) linguistics, Pragma-Dialectics, Critical Metaphor Analysis).

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2024/q3/24-51615159phd-candidate-starting-january-2025-for-the-project-russian-narratives-of-war

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Университет Лейдена открыл позицию аспиранта для проекта "Russian Narratives of War".

The PhD-project is part of the larger project (NWO-L) called “The language and argumentation of Russian propaganda” which consists of two PhDs and one postdoc and which is led by Egbert Fortuin (project leader, Russian Studies) together with Henrike Jansen and Peter Burger.

What are you going to do?

This PhD-position focuses on the narratives and their linguistic-argumentative properties that are used in Russia to influence the Russian-speaking population in that country to support the government in general and to rally behind the war in Ukraine in particular (period 2014-2024). This project aims at answering research questions such as: What narratives are used in Russian propaganda in general, specifically those concerning the war in Ukraine? How do arguments and rhetorical frames (including the use of words, expressions, and systematic metaphors) play a role in these narratives? How have these narratives evolved and been adapted over time (2014-2024)? Are there particular properties of argumentation, rhetoric and language which are typical for Russian propaganda?

The data will be collected from speeches by Putin, texts from Russian press agencies, texts from Russian state media and propaganda spread across new media channels that cannot directly be linked to the Russian government. The data will consist of words, verbal and multimodal expressions, and more generally frames and arguments, which play a key part in the narratives relevant for this subproject. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods will be used to analyze the data and the project may involve Natural Language Processing methodologies. The focus will be on the semantic-pragmatic analysis of words, expressions using different theoretical frameworks (for example, rhetorical frame analysis, (cognitive) linguistics, Pragma-Dialectics, Critical Metaphor Analysis).

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2024/q3/24-51615159phd-candidate-starting-january-2025-for-the-project-russian-narratives-of-war

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