In:Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 355] 2026
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 14 April 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.355.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.355.toc
Table of contents
Discursive (mis)representations of war and peace in cross-national
and historical perspectives1
and historical perspectives1
Cornelia Ilie
Part I.(Re)contextualizing narratives of war, peace and neutrality
Still-not-yet: Perpetual war and the futurity of peace30
Patricia L. Dunmire
War-peace dialectic revisited: From neutrality to post-neutrality
discourses in Sweden63
discourses in Sweden63
Cornelia Ilie
India’s war on its history of humiliation: A Discourse of Illusion approach96
Aditi Bhatia
The long, unsuccessful war: Discourses of Russian defeat following
the Russo-Japanese war, 1905-present124
the Russo-Japanese war, 1905-present124
Rotem Kowner
Cornelia Ilie
Part II.Contesting vs. justifying Russia’s war on Ukraine in the discursive battlefield
Vladimir Putin’s war rhetoric between cold reflection and furious hatred156
Daniel Weiss
Divergent visions on the war in Ukraine: A corpus-assisted discourse study
of speeches by Putin and Zelenskyy189
of speeches by Putin and Zelenskyy189
Ruth Breeze
María Fernanda Novoa-Jaso
Debating the Ukraine war in the German public: Three open letters,
an op-ed, and their uptake in the German quality press217
an op-ed, and their uptake in the German quality press217
Helmut Gruber
Peace into war transformation in news discourse on Ukraine: A cognitive-rhetorical perspective250
Serhiy Potapenko
Oleksii Deikun
Modification of media’s visual identity as a response to the war in
Ukraine: An exploratory study278
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska
Bianca Harms
Anna Samelova
Martyna Dudziak-Kisio
Päivi Maijanen
Anca Anton
Andreas Will
Emilia Zakrzewska
Antonia Matei
Gheorghe Anghel
Index
