Persuasive leadership through framing, rhetoric, and history: An analysis of Zelensky’s speeches after the invasion of Ukraine

Palabras clave: Comunicación política, liderazgo político, framing, analogía histórica, guerra ruso-ucraniana

Resumen

La comunicación política es un elemento clave en los momentos cruciales de la historia para influir en los gobiernos y opiniones públicas de países aliados. Los discursos del presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, han jugado un importante papel en su estrategia comunicativa para tratar de mantener y aumentar el apoyo de otros estados a su país en el conflicto bélico que le enfrenta a Rusia. Esta investigación analiza los discursos que dirigió a los parlamentos y a los ciudadanos de diferentes naciones en los dos primeros meses tras la invasión de Ucrania el 24 de febrero de 2022. A partir de una metodología cualitativa que reconstruye la estructura de los encuadres e identifica las figuras retóricas presentes en 27 intervenciones completas del líder ucraniano, los resultados revelan el predominio de cuatro encuadres que asocian la guerra con un choque de dos modelos morales antagonistas que imposibilitan cualquier tipo de equidistancia y la existencia de una amenaza a la seguridad global ante la que la comunidad internacional no puede permanecer indiferente. Para reforzar la efectividad persuasiva de sus argumentos y enfatizar la necesidad de las distintas medidas que propone, Zelensky utiliza las analogías históricas como un mecanismo simbólico clave en la totalidad de los discursos analizados, de forma que las referencias al legado memorístico faciliten la asimilación de sus ideas por parte de las opiniones públicas de cada sociedad.

Descargas

Los datos de descargas todavía no están disponibles.

Biografía del autor/a

Juan Antonio Marín-Albaladejo, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

PhD, is a professor of Journalism, Political Communication, and Public Opinion at Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), where he also coordinates several postgraduate programs related to these subjects. His research has mainly focused on the mediation of political scandals and framing. He has carried out research stays and international mobility at the universities of Wroclaw (Poland), Leuven (Belgium), and Coimbra (Portugal). In 2017, he was awarded with the ACOP (Spanish Political Communication Association) Award for the Best PhD Dissertation in the field. Some of his most recent work has dealt with polarization and hostile discourse on social media, as part of a project of the Research Group in Communication, Politics, and Image of UCAM, of which he is a member

Enrique Arroyas Langa, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

PhD, is a member of the Research Group in Communication, Politics, and Image of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), a multidisciplinary group mainly interested in political communication, journalistic mediation, and image consulting. His research focuses on the processes of public opinion formation, especially on contemporary challenges to democracy. He researches the intersection between media and politics, particularly on the relationship between news media and political discourse. Much of his work uses rhetorical methods to study political discourses, including the role of social media in the rise of populist movements. He is currently a professor at UCAM in the degrees of Communication Sciences, and an opinion columnist in La Opinión de Murcia, where he has published his column “Dulce Jueves” since 2014.

Pedro Luis Pérez-Díaz, Universidad de Murcia

PhD, is a professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication at the University of Murcia (UMU). He is a member of the Research Group in Social Communication, Culture and Technology of the same university and also a member of the Research Group in Communication, Politics, and Image of UCAM, institution from which he received the Extraordinary PhD Award in Social Sciences. His research focuses on civic and participatory journalism in digital contexts, with special attention to the analysis of public discourses shared by media, citizens, and political actors on social media in contemporary democratic societies. Author of several publications in impact journals, his contributions have been included by some of the leading publishers in the field. He has participated in competitive research projects related to the impact of social media in politics and accountability in the field of digital public administration. He has also carried out research stays at international institutions such as the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University and the University of Florida. He tweets from @pedroluis.

Ver citas

Descarga artículo

Crossmark

Métricas

Publicado
2025-06-17
Cómo citar
Marín-Albaladejo J. A., Arroyas Langa E. . y Pérez-Díaz P. L. . (2025). Persuasive leadership through framing, rhetoric, and history: An analysis of Zelensky’s speeches after the invasion of Ukraine. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 31(2), 445-457. https://doi.org/10.5209/emp.99171