Patriotic Rhetoric in Chinese- and Russian-Language University News Discourse

This study identifies linguistic and discursive similarities and differences in the patriotic rhetoric of China and Russia by analyzing university news discourse published in Chinese and Russian from 2017 to 2025. It is determined that the instruments of this rhetoric comprise rationally structured arguments with ideological and axiological orientation, as well as emotional appeals achieved through the individualization of experience and its subsequent transference into a collective ‘we’-experience. The findings establish that an informational-institutional framework underpinning rational argumentation dominates both the Russian and Chinese university news discourses; however, its implementation demonstrates a significantly higher density of official clichéd expressions in the Chineselanguage discourse compared to its Russian counterpart. Furthermore, it is shown that the institutional frame, axiology-driven precedent phenomena, personal narratives, and sublime emotional tone collectively construct a rhetorically rich semantic field within the university discourse of both nations. The research concludes that a wide spectrum of linguistic resources is employed to realize patriotic meanings: ranging from official formulaic phrases and frequently reproduced collocations aligned with state documents, to actively evolving patriotic onomastics, emotionally charged metaphors, lingual creatives (linguistic creations), and youth slang

Argumentation theory · China · Discourse analysis · Ideology · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Psycholinguistics and Behavioral Studies

• Everyday people’s patriotism in Russia

  Open Access•Irina Trotsuk, I V Trotsuk•RUDN Journal of Sociology•2021

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