Strategie (de)legitymizacyjne kandydatów w wyborach na prezydenta Rzeszowa w 2021 roku. Analiza korpusowa wpisów na Twitterze
(De)legitimisation Strategies of the Candidates in the 2021 Rzeszów Mayoral Elections: A Corpus Analysis of Twitter

Summary/Abstract: The article reconstructs and analyzes the discourses of those who took part in the 2021 Rzeszów early elections. The research material consisted of posts on the Twitter accounts of Konrad Fijołek, Marcin Warchoł, Ewa Leniart, and Grzegorz Braun during the election campaign. In order to accurately depict the discourses of these politicians, the study used corpus linguistics methods, which allow for an analysis at the quantitative level. It has been demonstrated that the candidates mainly focused on positive self-presentation and emphasizing their bonds with the city. However, certain differences of the discourses of individual politicians have been discerned: Marcin Warchoł made a self-presentation as a politician supported by the city’s residents and Mayor Ferenc, Konrad Fijołek highlighted the support of the political and media elites; while Grzegorz Braun’s discourse was most distinct from the other candidates (as the most radical). The paper demonstrates how corpus linguistics methods can complement research on media and political discourse.

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