Naruszanie zasad etyki poselskiej w latach 2001–2012
Violating parliamentary ethics in the period 2001–2012

Summary/Abstract: This sketch is an attempt to synthesise the parliamentary utterances that violate parliamentary ethics in the period 2001–2012, that is over the past four terms of offi ce of the Sejm. Those utterances frequently included vocabulary from the semantic fi eld of a lie and treachery, nouns which negatively evaluate the intellectual capacity of the person being their object, as well as wordslabels, which are nearly devoid of their dictionary meanings and at the same time are characterised by as extensive negative connotation as possible. What also attracts attention is the increasingly more frequent colloquialisation and vulgarisation of the language of politics. This text also attempts to answer the question whether the Sejm Komisja Etyki Poselskiej (the Deputy Committee on Ethics) is capable of infl uencing the level of the contemporary political debate in Poland.

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