Patriotism in Poland – Selected Conceptualizations of the Notion

• Authors: Olejniczak Elwira

Title variants

PL

Patriotyzm „po polsku” – wybrane konceptualizacje pojęcia

Abstracts

EN

In 2018 we celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Poland regaining independence, which is why it seems important to consider the most recent meanings of the notion of patriotism. This paper is an attempt to confront dictionary definitions of “patriotism” lexeme with the resources of the National Corpus of the Polish Language PWN, examples of modern literary texts, press and Internet discourse, as well as recorded conversations and ephemeral prints included therein. The notions of patriotism and patriots are currently used not only for political, religious and cultural as well as nationalistic purposes, but also for those humorous and hard-hitting ones. The theoretical framework of this article is determined by selected aspects of the linguistic tradition of valuation, based on the points where linguistics and axiology intersect. The linguistic analysis allows the observation of the most recent contexts of patriotism and the changes taking place in discourse.

Keywords

EN

patriotism; language; media; dictionaries

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 5-16

Contributors

author

Olejniczak Elwira