Język czy dyskurs?
Language or discourse?

Methodological reflections on the subject-matter of political linguistics

Author(s): Urszula Topczewska
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: political linguistics; language in politics; political discourses; descriptive discourse analysis
Summary/Abstract: Th is paper analyzes selected approaches to political linguistics and attempts to define its subject-matter, conceived of either as a variety of language or as social discursive practices. Th e diversity of genres and styles of utterances regarded as belonging to broadly understood political communication means that, even when it is defined as a discipline that studies the language of politics, political linguistics in fact deals with the use of linguistic forms in political discourses. Given the above, no models of knowledge implemented in the social interactions under consideration show enough system-like features to be treated as a language in the Saussurean tradition.

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