Conservative moral politics in the Polish discourse about LGBTQIA+ Cover Image

Moralna polityka konserwatystów w polskim dyskursie na temat LGBTQIA+
Conservative moral politics in the Polish discourse about LGBTQIA+

Author(s): Matylda Ciołkosz
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: moral politics; morality; conceptual metaphor; idealised cognitive models; LGBTQ+; conservatism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper summarises a pilot study aiming to apply George Lakoff's concept of moral politics in the Polish context. Based on an analysis of a corpus built from articles published in Polish right-wing weekly magazines between 2019 and 2021 and addressing the topic of the LGBTQIA+ community, the text argues that the way of formulating and expressing views regarding socio-political issues systematically depends on an implicitly applied cognitive model of morality (in this case, the strict father morality postulated by Lakoff).

  • Issue Year: 55/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-118
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish