Newspeak revisited: an analysis of selected speeches of PiS politicians from the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections
Newspeak revisited: an analysis of selected speeches of PiS politicians from the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections
Author(s): Martyna AwierSubject(s): Governance, Sociolinguistics, Political behavior, Politics and communication, Sociology of Politics, Stylistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Newspeak; PiS; political discourse; parliamentary election campaign;
Summary/Abstract: The study aims to examine the parliamentary campaign discourse of politicians of PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, lit. Law and Justice), the main right-wing Polish party, with a view to determining whether their language displays some similarities with Polish Newspeak used in the era of Communism. The research corpus consists of public statements of the most important PiS politicians delivered in the election campaign from June to October 2019. The research material comes from a plethora of online media sources, especially records of PiS conventions and from online newspapers. The selected texts underwent close scrutiny and stylistic analysis. This allowed for determining the patterns of Newspeak employed in this right-wing party parliamentary campaign.
Journal: Prace Językoznawcze
- Issue Year: 24/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 181-196
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English