Język konstytucji. Semiotyczne typy wypowiedzi w tekście ustawy zasadniczej
Language of the constitution. Semiotic types of statements in the text of the Fundamental Law

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the analysis is the language of fundamental laws, types of semiotic statements (directive, evaluative, formative, descriptive) and their occurrence in the texts of Polish constitutions with particular emphasis on the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1997. Directive statements are characteristic of normative acts, they contain rules of conduct and tell what reality is supposed to look like. Evaluative statements express approval or disapproval of certain phenomena and facts. Formative statements make changes to reality, while descriptive statements show what the world around the narrator looks like. All the indicated types of statements appear in the fundamental laws. The paper discusses their meaning and functions.

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