Medialny obraz kryzysu na przykładzie okładek tygodników opiniotwórczych na temat wojny w Ukrainie – ujęcie kontrastywne niemiecko-polskie
The media image of a crisis as illustrated by front covers of weekly opinion magazines on the war in Ukraine – a German-Polish contrastive perspective

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to present ways of communicating the war crisis from a contrastive perspective. It aims to analyze the front covers of German and Polish weekly opinion magazines published from February/March to the end of 2022, related to the outbreak and enfolding of the war in Ukraine. The study is based on the assumptions of linguistic discourse analysis developed by Walde- mar Czachur (2020). The subject of the analysis are verbal and visual elements of semiotically diverse media texts from comparable institutional broadcasters in Germany and Poland (weekly magazines “Der Spiegel” and “Polityka”) that co-create the war discourse. The analysis is designed to answer the question of how the covers of weekly magazines communicate the war crisis in Ukraine. In the conclusions, similarities and differences between German and Polish media discourse are presented, in which a specific construction of reality takes place, reflecting the content typical of a given culture and the patterns of action and knowledge of a specific community.

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