HOW DO LOCAL CONDITIONS INFORM SOCIO-POLITICAL LANGUAGE? THE CONCEPT OF ‘INTELLIGENTSIA’ IN ŁÓDŹ PRESS BEFORE THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY
HOW DO LOCAL CONDITIONS INFORM SOCIO-POLITICAL LANGUAGE? THE CONCEPT OF ‘INTELLIGENTSIA’ IN ŁÓDŹ PRESS BEFORE THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY
Author(s): Kamil ŚmiechowskiContributor(s): Tristan Korecki (Translator)
Subject(s): Media studies, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Social history, Politics and communication, Culture and social structure , 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: intelligentsia; social structure; history of ideas; Łódź; Warsaw; Poland;
Summary/Abstract: This article seeks to answer the question of whether the local conditions or determinants influence the socio-political language. Within the context of the nationwide discourse in the nineteenth-century Kingdom of Poland, an analysis follows how the concept of ‘intelligentsia’ functioned in the local press from the industrial city of Łódź. A source analysis leads to the conclusion that in the specific circumstances, of which the social mix was a constituent, certain notions of a defined meaning in the countrywide context may be interpreted in a manner divergent from the rule. As the social structure of Łódź was becoming more and more similar to that of Warsaw and other big cities, the differences in the definitions of the term ‘intelligentsia’ were gradually smoothening out.
Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 122
- Page Range: 135-163
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English