Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany.
This article presents a critical qualitative study of two opinion articles, written by two eminent scholars (Jürgen Habermas and Timothy Snyder), on the German government's hesitant arms supply for Ukraine during the first phase of the Russian war of aggression in 2022. The main aim of the article i...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 494 - 511 |
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Sep2025
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