KATARZYNA MOLEK-KOZAKOWSKA is Associate Professor of linguistics and communication and Head of the Department of English at the University of Opole, Poland, senior research fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania, and the leader of the CORECON project at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania. With a background in English language and literature, she has specialized in political discourse analysis, policy and science communication, multimodality studies, as well as popular media and journalism studies. Since 2014 she has co-edited Res Rhetorica, an international open-access quarterly journal focused on rhetoric and linguistics, published by the Polish Rhetoric Society. Apart from an extensive publishing record embedded in both (critical) discourse studies and media and communication studies, she has successfully managed international research collaborations that resulted in several co-edited volumes with Polish and international publishers and thematic issues of Res Rhetorica. She serves on the board of several journals and book series, including Springer Nature's series "The Language of Politics". SIMINA-MARIA TERIAN is Associate Professor with the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania where she specializes in Romanian Syntax, Pragmatics, Digital Tools in Romanian Language Learning, and Romanian as a Foreign Language. She has published three books on discourse analysis, grammar theory and analysis, and a cognitive analysis of Romanian idiomatic expressions. She has been a member of several national research and institutional development projects, including The Fake News Phenomenon in Romanian. A Discursive-Computational Approach (FAKEROM), an interdisciplinary humanities and computer science project surveying a large-sized corpus and classifying news reports; and The Preservation, Transformation and Study of Romanian Linguistic Heritage in the Context of Globalization (PATLIRO), a research grant focusing on the use of digital tools in the study of Romanian as a foreign language.

• Preface.- Introduction: Conflict Discourses in the Media.- Part I Comparative and/or Corpus Assisted Studies of Mediated War Coverage.- Empire, the Media, and Peace: A Corpus- and AI-Assisted Analysis of Stances on Peace in Polish, Romanian, and English Coverage of the Russia Ukraine War.- Comparative Analysis of International Legal Terminology in Polish and Romanian Media Discourse: The Case of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Framing the Past, Shaping the Present: The Weaponization of Historical Narratives in News on the Russian Ukrainian Conflict?.- What’s in a “War”? A Corpus Assisted Comparative Study on (De)legitimizing Linguistic Labels of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict in Romanian and English Language Media.- Part II Qualitative and/or Critical Case Studies of Language Used in Conflict Reporting.- Discursive Framing of National Security Concerns in Romanian Media’s Coverage of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Discourse Representations of Ukrainian Refugees in Romanian Online News.- Visual News Values: Mapping the Construction of Newsworthiness and Ideology in Romanian Media Imagery.- From Fact to Opinion and Back Again: A Case Study of Marcin Ogdowski’s Facebook War Reporting.- Media Narratives Regarding Refugees from Ukraine in Selected Polish Opinion Weeklies.- Part III Studies of Journalistic Strategies and Receptions of Conflict Representations.- Marginal Narratives in Romanian Media Coverage of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Military Conflicts in the Post Truth Era: An Analysis of the Russian Ukrainian War in a Romanian Newspaper.- Media Emotionscape: Fear Narratives and the Romanian Elections in Times of War.- How Amateur War Tourist Accounts Position Themselves against Mainstream Media Representations of the Russian Ukrainian War.- Index.

KATARZYNA MOLEK-KOZAKOWSKA is Associate Professor of linguistics and communication and Head of the Department of English at the University of Opole, Poland, senior research fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania, and the leader of the CORECON project at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania. With a background in English language and literature, she has specialized in political discourse analysis, policy and science communication, multimodality studies, as well as popular media and journalism studies. Since 2014 she has co-edited Res Rhetorica, an international open-access quarterly journal focused on rhetoric and linguistics, published by the Polish Rhetoric Society. Apart from an extensive publishing record embedded in both (critical) discourse studies and media and communication studies, she has successfully managed international research collaborations that resulted in several co-edited volumes with Polish and international publishers and thematic issues of Res Rhetorica. She serves on the board of several journals and book series, including Springer Nature's series "The Language of Politics". SIMINA-MARIA TERIAN is Associate Professor with the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania where she specializes in Romanian Syntax, Pragmatics, Digital Tools in Romanian Language Learning, and Romanian as a Foreign Language. She has published three books on discourse analysis, grammar theory and analysis, and a cognitive analysis of Romanian idiomatic expressions. She has been a member of several national research and institutional development projects, including The Fake News Phenomenon in Romanian. A Discursive-Computational Approach (FAKEROM), an interdisciplinary humanities and computer science project surveying a large-sized corpus and classifying news reports; and The Preservation, Transformation and Study of Romanian Linguistic Heritage in the Context of Globalization (PATLIRO), a research grant focusing on the use of digital tools in the study of Romanian as a foreign language.

• Preface.- Introduction: Conflict Discourses in the Media.- Part I Comparative and/or Corpus Assisted Studies of Mediated War Coverage.- Empire, the Media, and Peace: A Corpus- and AI-Assisted Analysis of Stances on Peace in Polish, Romanian, and English Coverage of the Russia Ukraine War.- Comparative Analysis of International Legal Terminology in Polish and Romanian Media Discourse: The Case of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Framing the Past, Shaping the Present: The Weaponization of Historical Narratives in News on the Russian Ukrainian Conflict?.- What’s in a “War”? A Corpus Assisted Comparative Study on (De)legitimizing Linguistic Labels of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict in Romanian and English Language Media.- Part II Qualitative and/or Critical Case Studies of Language Used in Conflict Reporting.- Discursive Framing of National Security Concerns in Romanian Media’s Coverage of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Discourse Representations of Ukrainian Refugees in Romanian Online News.- Visual News Values: Mapping the Construction of Newsworthiness and Ideology in Romanian Media Imagery.- From Fact to Opinion and Back Again: A Case Study of Marcin Ogdowski’s Facebook War Reporting.- Media Narratives Regarding Refugees from Ukraine in Selected Polish Opinion Weeklies.- Part III Studies of Journalistic Strategies and Receptions of Conflict Representations.- Marginal Narratives in Romanian Media Coverage of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Military Conflicts in the Post Truth Era: An Analysis of the Russian Ukrainian War in a Romanian Newspaper.- Media Emotionscape: Fear Narratives and the Romanian Elections in Times of War.- How Amateur War Tourist Accounts Position Themselves against Mainstream Media Representations of the Russian Ukrainian War.- Index.

KATARZYNA MOLEK-KOZAKOWSKA is Associate Professor of linguistics and communication and Head of the Department of English at the University of Opole, Poland, senior research fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania, and the leader of the CORECON project at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania. With a background in English language and literature, she has specialized in political discourse analysis, policy and science communication, multimodality studies, as well as popular media and journalism studies. Since 2014 she has co-edited Res Rhetorica, an international open-access quarterly journal focused on rhetoric and linguistics, published by the Polish Rhetoric Society. Apart from an extensive publishing record embedded in both (critical) discourse studies and media and communication studies, she has successfully managed international research collaborations that resulted in several co-edited volumes with Polish and international publishers and thematic issues of Res Rhetorica. She serves on the board of several journals and book series, including Springer Nature's series "The Language of Politics". SIMINA-MARIA TERIAN is Associate Professor with the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania where she specializes in Romanian Syntax, Pragmatics, Digital Tools in Romanian Language Learning, and Romanian as a Foreign Language. She has published three books on discourse analysis, grammar theory and analysis, and a cognitive analysis of Romanian idiomatic expressions. She has been a member of several national research and institutional development projects, including The Fake News Phenomenon in Romanian. A Discursive-Computational Approach (FAKEROM), an interdisciplinary humanities and computer science project surveying a large-sized corpus and classifying news reports; and The Preservation, Transformation and Study of Romanian Linguistic Heritage in the Context of Globalization (PATLIRO), a research grant focusing on the use of digital tools in the study of Romanian as a foreign language.

• Preface.- Introduction: Conflict Discourses in the Media.- Part I Comparative and/or Corpus Assisted Studies of Mediated War Coverage.- Empire, the Media, and Peace: A Corpus- and AI-Assisted Analysis of Stances on Peace in Polish, Romanian, and English Coverage of the Russia Ukraine War.- Comparative Analysis of International Legal Terminology in Polish and Romanian Media Discourse: The Case of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Framing the Past, Shaping the Present: The Weaponization of Historical Narratives in News on the Russian Ukrainian Conflict?.- What’s in a “War”? A Corpus Assisted Comparative Study on (De)legitimizing Linguistic Labels of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict in Romanian and English Language Media.- Part II Qualitative and/or Critical Case Studies of Language Used in Conflict Reporting.- Discursive Framing of National Security Concerns in Romanian Media’s Coverage of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Discourse Representations of Ukrainian Refugees in Romanian Online News.- Visual News Values: Mapping the Construction of Newsworthiness and Ideology in Romanian Media Imagery.- From Fact to Opinion and Back Again: A Case Study of Marcin Ogdowski’s Facebook War Reporting.- Media Narratives Regarding Refugees from Ukraine in Selected Polish Opinion Weeklies.- Part III Studies of Journalistic Strategies and Receptions of Conflict Representations.- Marginal Narratives in Romanian Media Coverage of the Russian Ukrainian Conflict.- Military Conflicts in the Post Truth Era: An Analysis of the Russian Ukrainian War in a Romanian Newspaper.- Media Emotionscape: Fear Narratives and the Romanian Elections in Times of War.- How Amateur War Tourist Accounts Position Themselves against Mainstream Media Representations of the Russian Ukrainian War.- Index.