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Språklig dekonstruktion av Katechon-ideologin: Rysk statsdiskurs i svensk översättning analyserad genom triangulering av SFG, DHA och konceptuell metaforteori
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education.
2026 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Linguistic Deconstruction of the Katechon Ideology : Russian State Discourse in Swedish Translation Analysed Through Triangulation of SFG, DHA and Conceptual Metaphor Theory (English)
Abstract [sv]

Studien undersöker hur Katechon-ideologin, en central men ofta förbisedd komponent i samtida rysk statsdiskurs, realiseras grammatiskt i Vladimir Putins essä Om den historiska enheten mellan ryssar och ukrainare (2021) och hur dess struktur omformas i svensk maskin- översättning. Katechon-begreppet, hämtat från ortodox politisk teologi, betecknar Rysslands självtillskrivna roll som andlig återhållare av moraliskt förfall. Genom en triangulering av systemisk-funktionell grammatik (Holmberg och Karlsson 2006), den diskurshistoriska ansatsen (Reisigl och Wodak 2008) och konceptuell metaforteori (Lakoff och Johnson 1980) analyseras tio nyckelbegrepp i tre svenska översättningar producerade via DeepL från ryska, ukrainska och engelska källtextversioner. Tre analytiskt utvecklade kategorier, hagiografisk radering, eklesiologisk utspädning och juridisk substitution, tillämpas på de mönster som trianguleringen synliggör. Resultaten visar att maskinöversättning systematiskt försvagar Katechon-ideologins sakrala register genom juridisk substitution, med implikationer för hur svenska läsare tolkar rysk politisk kommunikation och för den bredare frågan om ideologisk medling i transkulturell diskurs.

Abstract [en]

This study investigates how the Katechon ideology, a central but often overlooked component of contemporary Russian state discourse, manifests grammatically in Vladimir Putin’s essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians (2021) and how its structure reshapes in Swedish machine translation. The Katechon concept, derived from Orthodox political theology, designates Russia’s self-ascribed role as a spiritual restrainer of moral decay.Through a triangulation of Systemic Functional Grammar (Holmberg & Karlsson 2006), the Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl & Wodak 2008) and Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980), ten key concepts are analysed across three Swedish translations produced through DeepL from Russian, Ukrainian and English source versions. Three analytically developed categories, hagiographic erasure, ecclesiological dilution and juridical substitution, are applied to the patterns the triangulation reveals. The results show that machine translation systematically attenuates the Katechon ideology’s sacral registers through juridical substitution, with implications for how Swedish readers interpret Russian political communication and for the broader question of ideological mediation in cross-cultural discourse.

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2026. , p. 52
Keywords [en]
Katechon, Deconstruction, Systemic Functional Grammar, Discourse-Historical Approach, Conceptual Metaphor, Russian State Discourse, Recontextualization, Machine Translation, Secularization, Hagiographic Erasure, Ecclesiological Dilution, Juridical Substitution
Keywords [sv]
Katechon, dekonstruktion, systemisk-funktionell grammatik, diskurshistorisk ansats, konceptuell metafor, rysk statsdiskurs, rekontextualisering, maskinöversättning, sekularisering, hagiografisk radering, eklesiologisk utspädning, juridisk substitution
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-60620OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-60620DiVA, id: diva2:2083991
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Available from: 2026-07-03 Created: 2026-07-03 Last updated: 2026-07-06Bibliographically approved

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