This article presents an example of methodology that can be used to research the connection between language and social status. The methodology which is presented below was used in the research related to the influence of gender of a profession name on the social status of women who use this name. The article starts with a presentation of a theory, which was helpful in operationalization of the term ?social status?, then it shows the method that was used to collect the needed data and in the end, it describes the factors that influenced the choice of the profession names and the respondents.
The article is to describe the definition of the situation formed by the language of “Rituals of the Holy Matrimony Adjusted to the Customs of Polish Dioceses”. The main question is hence: “What definition of the situation is created by the text of the holy matrimony rituals in the Roman Catholic Church”. The analysis are conducted from a sociological perspective created by E. Goffman and called ”dramaturgical perspective”. According to this perspective interactions between people are seen as a performance given by a performer or a team of performers to make an impression on other people (the public). The research question is answered with a help of the theory of conceptual metaphors, the speech acts theory and the theory of conversational implicature. After recognizing main impressions, means of persuasion which were used for creating them are identified and described. The last part describes so-called impression management in analysed rituals.
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The article is to describe the definition of the situation formed by the language of “Rituals of the Holy Matrimony Adjusted to the Customs of Polish Dioceses”. The main question is hence: “What definition of the situation is created by the text of the holy matrimony rituals in the Roman Catholic Church”. The analysis are conducted from a sociological perspective created by E. Goffman and called ”dramaturgical perspective”. According to this perspective interactions between people are seen as a performance given by a performer or a team of performers to make an impression on other people (the public). The research question is answered with a help of the theory of conceptual metaphors, the speech acts theory and the theory of conversational implicature. After recognizing main impressions, means of persuasion which were used for creating them are identified and described. The last part describes so-called impression management in analysed rituals.
The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the argumentational structure of formal inquiry on chosen example. It also attempts to assess the validity of every identified part of argumentations. This assessment is done by the use of notions and methods postulated by Tokarz (2006) for formalization and judgment of argumentation. As a result, proposal of general structure of argumentation and structure of every subarguments used in analyzed text is presented.
This article is a report of the results of qualitative research related to the influence of gender of a profession name on the social status of women who use this name. The subject is analyzed in two ways ? firstly quantitatively to show the connections between social status related to gender of professions names and different variables, and then qualitatively ? to show the character descriptions associated with women, who use profession names in different gender and types of attitudes observed between the respondents.
Krytyczna analiza dyskursu (KAD) jako nurt z pogranicza socjologii i językoznawstwa skupia się na analizie roli dyskursu w umacnianiu i reprodukowaniu relacji władzy i dominacji, zaś badaniu empirycznemu podlegają przede wszystkim różnego rodzaju teksty. Właśnie koncentrację na tekście uznać można za jedną z przyczyn wzrastającego zainteresowania wykorzystaniem metod językoznawstwa korpusowego w takich analizach. Prezentacji tych metod poświęcony jest niniejszy artykuł. Przedstawione zostaną podstawowe strategie doboru korpusu do badań w ramach KAD oraz najczęściej wykorzystywane metody: analiza frekwencji, analiza słów kluczowych, analiza kolokacji i analiza konkordancji. Zaprezentowane zostaną także przykłady zastosowania poszczególnych metod w różnorodnych tematycznie badaniach. Przegląd metod podsumowany zostanie omówieniem korzyści wypływających z ich zastosowania oraz kosztów, które się z nimi wiążą.
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The paper aims to present corpus methods most commonly used in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The issues of corpus design for CDA will be discussed and methods frequently used in such analysis will be presented: frequency lists, keywords, collocations, and concordances. Moreover, examples of research using this methods will be overviewed to provide an account of the variety of subjects and conclusions the discussed methods might lead to. The paper will conclude with some remarks on benefits and costs related to the usage of corpus methods in CDA
The paper aims at describing the discourse of the Polish Catholic Church upon family. The perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis is adapted and chosen categories suggested by van Leeuwen (2008) are used. The study is conducted on corpus (241-thousand words) of official documents published on website of Polish Bishop’s Conference. Qualitative and quantitative methods are used. The analysis reveals three discursive ways of constructing of the family: family as a part of church’s community, family as week, endangered and needing protection and strong connection between family and national identity.
This article presents results of exploratory study concerning the relation between Polish language norms and texts published on weblogs. Six weblogs were analyzed in order to find all differences between the forms used on the blogs and those suggested by norms. Those differences were then classified as either justified innovation or mistakes. The classification on found mistakes based on the literature was also conducted.
Blogs are continuously gaining on popularity and social influence in Poland. In this paper we analyze the use of newest English loan words on corpus of texts from most influential Polish blogs. To present complex picture of the loan words, we describe them among others according to their current status as loan words and semantic fields they belong to. The results show some tendencies in the newest English loan words in Polish.
The steadily growing popularity of the Internet leads to many new social phenomena including verbal aggression on the Internet called cyberbulling or flaming. This study aims to describe verbal aggression in the comments on the polish Internet. Such comments on various subjects and from websites with different levels of anonymity were analysed. The data showed among others, that the percentage of aggressive comments is proportional to the level of anonymity provided on specific websites and thatusers prefer to express aggression by using offensive, but not vulgar, language.
Podręczniki są wskazywane jako jedno z istotnych źródeł transmisji dominujących konstrukcji dyskursywnych. W niniejszym tekście przedstawiamy analizę dyskursywnej konstrukcji rodziny w podręcznikach do nauki języka polskiego i języka fińskiego jako języków obcych. Prowadzimy analizę z perspektywy dyskursywno-historycznej w ramach krytycznej analizy dyskursu z użyciem metod jakościowych. Ujawnione dyskursy wskazują na pewne podobieństwa, ale również różnice między analizowanymi konstrukcjami rodziny. Do najważniejszych z nich należą: koncentracja na rolach społecznych związanych z płcią w przypadku polskiego podręcznika i niska pozycja dzieci w hierarchii rodzinnej w przypadku podręcznika fińskiego.
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Course books are described as one of the important sources for the transmission of the dominant discursive structures. The article analyses the discursive construction of family in course books for learners of Polish and Finnish as foreign languages. We conduct our analysis from the perspective of the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis with the use of qualitative methods. The revealed discourses show some similarities but also differences in the discursive construction of family in the two countries. The most prominent differences include the concentration on gender roles in the family in the case of the Polish course book and the low position of children in the family hierarchy in the Finnish course book.
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