Topoi im aktuellen deutschen Polendiskurs, dargestellt am Beispiel der deutschen Internetkommentare zu Artikeln über deutsch-polnische Beziehungen
Topoi in the Current German Discourse on Poland and Poles from the Perspective of German Internet Comments on Articles about German-Polish Relations

Author(s): Mariusz Jakosz
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: topos; argumentation; stereotypes; making judgements
Summary/Abstract: The article will be devoted to the selected topoi still returning in the current German discourse on Poland and Poles. The research focuses on Internet comments on the articles which were published online by the most influential German daily papers and weekly magazines between 2009 and 2014. An analysis of the most common topoi (such as the topos of Polish backwardness, the topos of living at the expense of German taxpayers, the topos of Polish ungratefulness) and the vocabulary used to express them makes it possible – among other things – to identify the typical traits and patterns of behaviour attributed to Poles by German internet users.

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