Poetyckie gry językowe jako narzędzie wojennej propagandy (na materiale „Okien TASS”)
Poetic language games as a means of war propaganda (on the material of “TASS Windows”)

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the study is to identify the role of pun language games in propaganda texts. The analysis was based on the works of Soviet poets which consist a part of propagandistic posters “TASS Windows” of the II World War period. The empirical material include the “TASS Windows” posters from the collections of the Perm State Art Gallery, the Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature in Moscow and the Russian State Lenin Library in Moscow. The analysis covers examples of language games based on homonymy, paronymy, polysemy, transformation of stable word combinations, as well as etymological figure. The study shows how the poems contained in the TASS posters served to depress the image of the enemy and create a unified picture of reality, based on the opposition “us – them” and corresponding to the wartime propaganda of success.

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