Polska i Unia Europejska w tekstach humorystycznych
POLAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION IN HUMOROUS TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to investigate the relationship between Poland and the EU in jokes as a homogeneous body of text, political jokes being firmly entrenched in the Polish tradition. The corpus for analysis consists of jokes about the EU found on the Internet. Before the nationwide referendum on Poland's accession to the EU, jokes functioned as one of the means of shaping public opinion, mainly used by the opponents of the accession. An analysis of the jokes, based on Victor Ruskin's script theory, showed divisions and conflicts of interests in Polish public life, perceived by the opponents of Poland's integration with the EU as real threats: programmed atheism, moral relativism, bureaucracy, propaganda, economic decline and eventually loss of independence. Superior to all anti-union jokes is the opposition of scripts POLISH NORMS - EUROPEAN NORMS, the former being social time-honoured norms, traditional, firm and verified through the experience of many generations of Poles, whereas the latter - a bureaucratic artifact, something alien, not subjected so far to the test of time, something forcefully imposed on the Polish society.

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