Czy łatwo ukryć wzajemną niezgodę? O językowych manifestacjach sprzeciwu w Weselu Stanisława Wyspiańskiego

• Authors: Agata Pławecka

Title variants

EN

Is it easy to hide mutual disagreement? – linguistic demonstrations of opposition in Stanisław Wyspiański's "Wesele"

Abstracts

EN

In Polish dictionaries, opposition is defined primarily as disagreement, no agreement. In the article Is it easy to hide mutual disagreement? – about linguistic manifestations of opposition in Stanisław Wyspiański's "The Wedding" Agata Pławecka examines opposition as an act of speech which emerges from disagreement and at the same time reveals it, constituting one of the stages of an argumentative dialogue. The purpose of the text is to present linguistic signals of opposition to socially established ideas about the representatives of confronting social strata and to describe how these signals function in a literary text. On their basis, the chapter reconstructs sources of social disagreement from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Research was conducted on Stanisław Wyspiański’s drama "The Wedding", which characterizes the Polish society of that time. The author of the article focuses on the description of opposition formulas which, according to the adopted methodology of Christian Plantin, introduce the opposite discourse and argumentation of the other person. The study shows that opposition is an important element of dialogues that appear in "The Wedding". Linguistic signals of opposition are revealed by the characters of the drama despite the social wedding situation, which would force all invited guests to maintain equality and mutual agreement. Analyses demonstrate that the literary text contains various types of opposition. This article presents divisions into: 1) independent and dependent oppositions; 2) explicit and implicit oppositions. Results indicate that the sources of social disagreement in the Young Poland era included, among others, factors such as: differences in the way of perceiving the world caused by having alternative types of knowledge about reality (resulting from different ways of creating this knowledge; thinking based on stereotypes vs thinking based on experience and observations); deficits in knowledge about the habits and mentality of different social strata members; ignorance, prejudice, aversion, and contempt for Otherness, associated with an exaggerated conviction of one's superiority; lack of faith in the possibility of uniting different communities, lack of willingness to really come to know another person and confront the common beliefs about represedifferent social group representatives with reality.

Keywords

EN

opposition; disagreement; discourse; drama; Wyspianski; argumentative dialogue

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
• Journal: Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69-94

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Agata Pławecka

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie

• https://orcid.org/0000000159295980

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1968561