A Critical Discourse Analysis of News on The Russian- Ukrainian Crisis in CNN and RT English News Channels

Abstract

The recent conflict that erupted last year between Russia and Ukraine provided the foundation for this study's inspiration. Two news reports that were collected from the websites of the CNN and Russia Today(RT) English news channels were examined using Fairclough's (1992) three-level model as the primary model. Multiple models were employed at these levels to accomplish the objectives of this research, including : Searle (1979), Quirk et al. (1985), van Dijk (1991),Harris's (2013),and Halliday and Matthiessen (2014).
 The following research questions have been raised as follows:
 1.What are the syntactic, lexical, and rhetorical microstructures used by some CNN and RT with regard to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis?
 
 Which intersexual and speech acts are used as mesostructures to convey the ideology of CNN and RT ?
 What are the repeated themes that those channels introduced in terms of the macrostructures?
 What is the information provided by the micro-and microstructures of those news channels’ ideologies towards the Russian-Ukrainian crises?
 
 The following conclusions have been reached:
 
 CNN and RT utilize multiple syntactic structures like activation and passivation with the activation having the highest frequency ; CNN and RT employ over wording and metaphor as the analysis reveals.
 CNN and RT utilize the direct and indirect manifest intertextuality the data under examination and mostly use speech acts’ representatives (assertive).
 The most repeatedly used theme in the collected data is manipulation.
 Anti- violence and the defence of human rights are the most commonly used repeated ideological notions that are used by the journalists of CNN and RT in the data under examination.