Językowe sposoby deprecjonowania przeciwników politycznych w felietonach Jerzego Urbana z lat 1995–2000

• Authors: Joanna Smól

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LINGUISTIC MEANS OF DEPRECIATING POLITICAL OPPONENTS IN JERZY URBAN’S FEATURES FROM 1995–2000

• Languages of publication: PL

Keywords

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JERZY URBAN; FEATURES; “NIE” WEEKLY; LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY; This article analyses Jerzy Urban’s 66 features which were published in the “Nie” weekly in 1995–2000; At that time; the magazine campaigned against right-wing politicians and clergy representatives; Features of the editor-in-chief; Jerzy Urban; were a weapon in that fight; For the purpose of humiliation; Urban used linguistic means typical of newspeak; In the analyzed material; linguistic creativity and competence typical of the idiolect of the editor-in-chief of the “Nie” weekly can be seen; The article presents the most popular linguistic means used for depreciation of political opponents; The linguistic means were excerpted from the research material and include; negative-evaluative words; neologisms; neosemantisms; contaminations; modifications of surnames (among other things; using surnames in plural form and creating diminutive forms); irony; sarcasm; metaphors; and comparisons which aim at transferring negative features (attributed to a particular phenomenon) to a person being the target of attack

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Język a Kultura
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 22
• Pages: 47-58

Contributors

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Joanna Smól