Konstantin Anatolievich Semenchuk,
Research Assistant, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Imperial Discourse and Metaphorical Models of the Russian Empire in the Church Periodicals of the Late 19th Century
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-6-2
The article is devoted to the study of the symbolic representation of the Russian Empire in the church periodicals of the late 19th century. The author identified the four most common metaphorical models of the Russian state, and each of them was analyzed and reconstructed. A separate aspect of the work is the identification of contradictions within the presented metaphorical structures. As a result of the study, a conclusion was made about the prevalence of constructions of a universalist nature that appeal to divinely and naturally established orders, which makes it impossible to deploy nationalist and liberal discourse in the church periodicals. The author comes to the conclusion that, despite the presence of contradictions within the models used, the political discourse of the correspondents of church periodicals remains traditionalist and conservative with an orientation towards preserving the imperial political order.
Publishing: 28/12/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 30.11.2021
How to cite: Semenchuk K.A. Imperial Discourse and Metaphorical Models of the Russian Empire in the Church Periodicals of the Late 19th Century // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 6 (20), pp. 29–40. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-6-02.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2021
Keywords: imperial discourse; church periodicals; metaphorical models of the state; missionary historical narrative