Ebook Discourse of Ukrainian Identity in the Polish Opinion-Forming Press during the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan Olha Tkachenko

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Introduction 11

Chapter 1. National Identity and Discourse.
Theory and Methodology 37
1.1. National identity and discourse 37
1.1.1. National identity as a construct 37
1.1.2. Main types of identity problems in Ukraine
during the social and political transformation
in the post-Soviet period 50
1.1.3. Text, discourse and context 71
1.1.4. Discourses of identity and media 78
1.2. Methodology and methods of textual analysis 85
1.2.1. Content analysis 87
1.2.2. Critical Discourse Analysis 90
1.2.3. Norman Fairclough’s methods of Critical
Discourse Analysis 93
1.2.4. Ruth Wodak’s Critical Discourse Analysis
approach to national identity 95
1.2.5. Theo van Leeuwen’s method of analysis
of social actors 98
1.2.6. Analysis of narrative 100

Chapter 2. Media Communication System and OpinionForming Press 105
2.1. Mass media in the process of identity
construction 105
2.2. Polish opinion-forming press and the discourse
of opinion journalism (publicystyka) 109
2.3. Opinion-forming press on the Polish media
market 117

Chapter 3. “Ukraine Is Not Russia”: The Orange
Revolution and Changes in Ukrainian Identity in the Polish Opinion-Forming Press 133
3.1. Representation of Ukraine before the Orange
Revolution 138
3.1.1. The politicians 138
3.1.2. The oligarchs 147
3.1.3. The society 151
3.2. Re-inventing Ukraine. The discourse of the
“birth of a nation” 154
3.3. Actors of identity during the Orange Revolution
172
3.3.1. Viktor Yushchenko, the hetman of freedom
172
3.3.2. Yulia Tymoshenko, Joan of Arc or the “gas
princess” 178
3.4. Discourse of a “divided Ukraine” 184
3.5. Post-Orange disappointment: the Empire strikes
back 190

Chapter 4. “Goodbye Lenin”: The Euromaidan
and Ukrainian Identity in the Polish Opinion-Forming
Press 195,/b>
4.1. Voices of representation 197
4.2. Social actors, agencies and the framing of the
protests 202
4.2.1. Activists and young people 205
4.2.2. Radical nationalists 207
4.2.3. Politicians 216
4.2.4. Oligarchs 218
4.2.5. People of culture 220
4.2.6. Clergy 228
4.3. Agency. The image of the Euromaidan 228
4.3.1. The Maidan as the Zaporizhian Sich 229
4.3.2. The Maidan as the site of a “new Ukraine”
231
4.3.3. The republic of the Maidan 233
4.4. Geography of representation 234
4.5. Wording 237
4.5.1. Ukraine as a “failed state” 240
4.5.2. “Two Ukraines” 242
4.5.3. Values 243

Chapter 5. Models and Patterns of Ukrainian Identity
Represented in Polish Opinion-Forming Press:
Comparisons, Narratives, Explanations 247
5.1. The Orange Revolution versus the Euromaidan and
the process of identity construction in Ukraine 248
5.1.1. Discursive strategies and models of
Ukrainian identity constructed in the Polish press
257
5.2. Polish-Ukrainian historical discourse and the
perception of Ukrainian identity 265
5.2.1. Discourse of Kresy (Borderlands) 286
5.2.2. Discourse of Central and Eastern Europe 296
5.2.3. Discourse of Ukraine as Poland’s raison
d’état 300

Conclusions 317
Bibliography 329
Appendices 351
Index of names 353
List of figures 359
List of tables 360