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Polish political humour

Author(s): Marcin Poprawa
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore
Published by: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum
Keywords: Polish political humour; intertextuality; winged words; political discourse; language of politics

Summary/Abstract: This article is a survey of the most important communicative phenomena in the contemporary Polish political humour. It is also an attempt to describe political humour from a theoretical point of view and to compare it with political jokes from a period of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL). This article mainly describes amusing statements of contemporary politicians that were primarily used as the means of a political polemic, and secondarily after having been popularised by journalists (due to their comic content), achieved a status of “winged words” and appeared in various intertextual variants of the public and colloquial discourse.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 53
  • Page Range: 55-76
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Estonian
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