Słowa kluczowe w dyskursie polskiej polityki na przestrzeni stu lat
Keywords in Polish political discourse over the last 100 years

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of a quantitative analysis of a corpus comprising Polish prime ministers’ speeches given between 1919 and 2019. Its aim is to trace potential changes Polish political discourse has undergone over the last 100 years, which might also reflect wider extra-linguistic changes. To this end, it employs tools associated with corpus linguistics, specifically keywords analysis. The study identifies three main linguistically distinct periods in the recent history of Polish political discourse, but it also points to trends characterized by stability rather than change, reflecting the requirements of the genre. The use of quantitative methods puts into perspective some of the findings of previous qualitative studies by providing a broader and more nuanced diachronic view of Polish political discourse.

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