War, Words, and the Oval Office: A CDA of Strategic Language Use in High-Stakes Political Conflict

The purpose was to highlight how discourse works to establish power relations, captured narrative of the war, diplomacy, and moral authority framing in the Ukrainian Russian war context.The study was grounded on Chilton's (1996) Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) of War with an emphasis on three main constituent: deictic framing, metaphors of war and peace, and security framing with moral evaluation.