Samobójstwo w starym stylu – o nazywaniu aktu samobójczego w polszczyźnie i notatkach prasowych z okresu I wojny światowej
Old-style suicide – referring to the act of suicide in the Polish language and in press reports from the World War I period

Author(s): Ewa Rudnicka
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: suicide; referring to suicide; suicide in the press from the years 1914–1918; linguistic aspects of writing about suicide
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to examine how the social concept of suicide was shaped by the media and what the pragmatic and cultural dimension of press reports on suicide was during the World War I period. Th e analyses start with a review of the ways of referring to the act of taking one’s own life in the Polish language. The main part of the article is comprised of a linguistic analysis of the reports concerned with suicide found in the daily press from the years 1914–1918.

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