Debata sejmowa na temat wprowadzenia stanu wyjątkowego na granicy z Białorusią w perspektywie funkcjonalnej analizy dyskursu politycznego oraz analizy ram tematycznych
The parliamentary debate on the introduction of a state of emergency on the border with Belarus in the perspective of functional analysis of political discourse and analysis of thematic frameworks

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine whether the parliamentary debate over the Polish President's decree imposing a state of emergency on the border with Belarus is part of the deep polarization of the political scene in Poland at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. The following research methods were used: functional analysis of political discourse, developed by William Benoit, thematic framework analysis by Shanto Iyengar, and, helpfully, John Rupert Firth's findings on the relationship between language and context. The research sample was purposive in nature. The unit of analysis was a sequence – i.e., the utterance of one politician in a specific thematic frame, through which a selected function of political discourse was realized. The analysis was quantitative and qualitative in nature. The research material was the transcript of the 36th session of the Sejm of September 6, 2021. Results and conclusions: in the analyzed parliamentary debate, the majority of statements by politicians of the United Right expressed praise, in the case of opposition politicians, the majority of statements presented an attack. The research sample included statements by government and opposition representatives classified into an episodic or thematic frame. The analysis found no dominance of either frame. The most significant contextual frame in the statements of politicians, both government and opposition, was the personal frame. Originality and cognitive value: the article expands knowledge in the area of political communication of parliamentarians of the Ninth Sejm.

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