Jude Niedziel, dr Mengele, covidowe hitlerki – językowe środki dyskredytacji przeciwnika w dyskursie sceptycznym wobec szczepień
Jude Niedziel, Dr. Mengele, covid hitlers – linguistic means of discrediting the opponent in the vaccine skepticism discourse

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the description of selected invectives used to discredit the opponent (mainly the government and the Minister of Health) by vaccination sceptics on the social networking site Facebook. In the discourse in question, we observe diverse linguistic means of depreciation, among which a special place is occupied by those referring to anti-Semitic and war themes. The analytical material is a corpus of texts containing Facebook users' comments. The research focuses on analyzing ways of negative valuing (depreciating) the opponent and shows the linguistic means used for this purpose. Among them are the following terms: jude Niedziel, criminals, Dr. Mengele a.k.a. Niedzielski, covid hitlers, genocide.

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