After October 1956, the rebirth of Catholic journalism was seen. A new monthly journal 'Wiez' was published in 1958 by young Catholics who had left 'PAX' in the summer of 1955. The group of columnists gathered around 'Wiez' journal fostered the traditional Catholic values, encouraged participation in the Catholic community and promoted the idea of social commitment of Catholics. They acknowledged the fact of implementation of socialist reforms in Poland as inevitable. Apart from socio-cultural and historical issues, long-term intellectual work on shaping young Poles attitudes and behaviour was of interest to the 'Wiez' journal community. According to 'Wiez' journal editors, it was education that ascribed the main role in the process of building a human society and social order. The interests of 'Wiez' journal community in the educational issues resulted from the above premises. 'Wiez' journal community willingly accepted the readiness of the Polish educational authorities for wide-ranging reforms in 1956/57 and 1961. The complex educational problems were repeatedly analysed in 'Wiez' journal.
The paper surveys alternative ways of research on political language use. Taking sides with linguistics-based, quantitative alternatives, the authoress analyses the role of metaphors in political propaganda. Choice of metaphors is an important ingredient of power discourse, especially in periods of dictatorship. Using results of cognitive linguistic approaches, the authoress presents examples from the Hungarian press of the mid-twentieth century and shows how metaphors, constituting the culmination of political communication, were projected to the various areas of life, how they tried to affect people's thinking. The sense networks of the editorials analysed emphasise the negative participant of the BATTLE metaphor, the attacker, forcing opponents of the party-state system into that role. The study of metaphor use, therefore, supports the claim that the metaphor was selected consciously, with pragmatic factors in mind. Its textual function was to establish an emotional link between political power groups (as opposed to dissidents) and the consumers of political propaganda.
Editors of 'Pielgrzym', published in Pelplin since 1869, similarly to editors of other Polish periodicals in the West Prussia, did not manage to avoid release processes brought to editors responsible for offences against the Penal Code of the country. Nine out of fourteen responsible editors had release processes brought against them. As many as 45 times the articles published in 'Pielgrzym' were taken to the Starogard court. As a result, until 1914 the editors were imposed a fine of 12455 marks and sentenced to prison for one year, three months and one week. However, after appeals these rulings were reduced to 6925 marks, one year and one week of imprisonment.
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