O zamęcie symbolicznym, czyli historia walki o krzyż
On symbolic confusion that is the history of the battle for the cross

Between sacrum and profanum

Author(s): Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka
Subject(s): Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: symbolic interactionism; sociology of knowledge; symbolic coding; symbolic confusion; symbolic misunderstanding
Summary/Abstract: On April 10, 2010 Smolensk catastrophe happened. A few days after the crash, scouts put a cross in front of the Presidential Palace as a symbol of remembrance for the victims of the crash. From that moment a rapid process of dichotomization of the Polish society started. In my analysis I focus on considering the process of symbolic encoding of the cross in the social discourse in the context of theories of social constructivism, sociology of knowledge, symbolic interactionism, sociolinguistics and communication theory.

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