Co robią naukowcy i dlaczego jest to wartościowe? Prasowy obraz naukowca w perspektywie wartości
What do scientists do and why is it valuable? A press image of a scientist in the perspective of values

Author(s): Anna Łach
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: press image of a scientist; popularisation of science in the Polish press; popular-science writing style; language evaluation
Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the presence of evaluative lexis in popular science texts. The material on which the research was conducted consisted of popular science texts, published in the Science section of the Polish edition of the „Newsweek” weekly in 2015. The content analysis method was used for the research. The analysis includes verbal forms that refer to actions undertaken by scientists, and circumstances describing manners of performing these activities. The results allow us to state that the press creates a positive image of an active scientist undertaking various operations, most of which concern mental activity. Evaluative vocabulary present in the analysed texts belongs to – in J. Puzynina’s terminology – the group of secondary-evaluative lexemes.

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