Sposoby konstruowania empatycznego punktu widzenia (na przykładzie wybranych tekstów prasowych o problemie uchodźców i imigrantów)
Constructing an Empathetic Point of View (as Exemplified by Selected Newspaper Articles on Refugees and Immigrants)

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at depicting the linguistic (inflectional, syntactic) means through which speakers induce the listeners’ identification with a given scene participant. My focus is on empathy understood as a specific viewing arrangement, i.e. along the lines set by S. Kuno (1987: 206): “Empathy is the speaker’s identification, which may vary in degree, with a person/thing that participates in the event or state that he describes in a sentence.” A broader approach allows us to include also the perspective of the listener, whom the speaker manoeuvres into adopting the viewpoint of a participant of the scene. The study is based on a corpus compiled out of articles published in 2015 in a major Polish weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny”.

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