Referring to acompilation of definitions and concepts concerning political correctness, Eliza Kowal aims to create the list of its determinants in order to compare them with the tactics used or misused by the authors of the weblog Geen Stijl. The mentioned weblog, which is considered to stand in opposition to what they themselves call “decency” (fatsoen) and what in abroader perspective might be seen as “political correctness”, aims to break the rules of correct journalism. The discourse in the posts of Geen Stijl team is analysed based on the material collected on aparticular subject — Polish immigrants in the Netherlands.
The paper aims to present and analyze selected fragments of the Hulsman Commission’s advisory report from the year 1971 — a first modern investigation on the drug problem in the Netherlands, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. The author analyzes the moments of shaping and re-shaping the discourse on drugs and deconstruction of its most transparent assumptions. The theoretical background of the analysis are selected terms of Laclau and Mouff e’s discourse theory.
The following paper investigates discourse behind public service advertising concerning cigarettes and alcohol in order to compare and contrast two mentioned categories. Taking cultural and social status of the substances into account as well as their influence on human body and mind, the author aims for pointing the main tendencies within the institutional discourse such as medicalization of human body, public–private dichotomy and a question of normality.
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