| Abstract [eng] |
The dissertation analyses the decoding of broadcasts of the Lithuanian SSR radio to foreign Lithuanians in the Lithuanian American press. It identifies the strategies of resistance and opposition to the discourse of propaganda used by the Lithuanian press in the US of different ideological orientations: "Draugas", "Naujienos", "Dirva", and "Vilnis" during the Cold War. The Lithuanian SSR radio broadcasts, more commonly known as Radio Vilnius broadcasts for foreign Lithuanians, began broadcasting in 1946. The circulation of radio content, which came from various sources, was very uneven in the Lithuanian American press. The dissertation applies a transnational approach to sources. Following this approach, the dissertation divides the research sources into primary sources, i.e. the Lithuanian American press, and supplementary sources, i.e. archival documents and oral history interviews with journalists working for foreign Lithuanians on Radio Vilnius in the late Soviet period. In constructing the theoretical approach of the dissertation, two terms were combined: propaganda and discourse, thus introducing and developing the term discourse of propaganda. The dissertation tested a new model. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding and Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis models were interconnected. This link was applied to the context of propaganda sent from the Lithuanian SSR to the USA. |
