Rhetoric of Russian Civilizational Identity: a Case Study of Patriarch Kirill’s Discourse
(2023) Routledge handbook of descriptive rhetorical studies and world languages — ISBN: [9781003195276], p. 101-115, published
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- The idea of Russkiy Mir (literally meaning the “Russian World”) promoted by the Church in cooperation with the state relies on the common religious, linguistic and historical heritage of the Eastern Slavs. It was relaunched in contemporary official rhetoric by President Putin in 2006 and became actively promoted by Patriarch Kirill after his enthronement in 2009. Through the years, the rhetoric of Russkiy Mir has experienced considerable changes driven by political events. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the evolution of rhetorical mechanisms used by Patriarch Kirill to represent Russkiy Mir as a transcendental concept of a unifying supranational force. The research is based on the analysis of speeches delivered by Patriarch Kirill from 2009 until 2021 and targets two rhetorical canons: inventio and elocutio. Inventio is studied with the help of the Toulmin model and the theory of modality (Nuyts, Akatsuka). The types of arguments are identified from the position of classical rhetoric. The research of elocutio is performed through linguistic analysis of the texts, with special attention being paid to onyms as they define the parameters of Russian civilizational discourse.
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Bruffaerts, N. (2023). Rhetoric of Russian Civilizational Identity: a Case Study of Patriarch Kirill’s Discourse. In Weixiao Wei et James A. Schnell (ed.), Routledge handbook of descriptive rhetorical studies and world languages (p. p. 101-115). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003195276-10