Kolor jako zjawisko komunikacyjne we współczesnym dyskursie publicznym na przykładzie manifestacji oraz kampanii społecznej
Colour as a Communication Phenomenon in Contemporary Public Discourse on the Example of a Demonstration and a Social Campaign

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the communicative and meaning-creating potential of colour in the public discourse. The scope of the analyzed material consists of two discursive events: Pink October as an example of a social campaign and Black Protest as an example of a social demonstration. The research aims to determine the semiotic independence of colour in the message, the functions of colour implemented in public discourse, and assess the connotative changes of colours motivated by contemporary social activities. For this purpose, the analysis also considered the semantic evaluation of the pink and black lexemes. The material represents the diverse nature of activity in the public domain, collected based on observation of media reports - multimodal texts in a digital medium. The presented data is a selected representation of the verbal layer and key visual referents coexisting with colour in a given discursive event. The research shows semantic changes in the field of lexemes naming colours, and draws attention to the correlation of media discourse with public discourse. The result of observation and analysis is the conclusion about the contextually dependent semantic independence of the colour. The conclusions define colour as a secondary independent communication system in public discourse.

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