Semantyczne zmiany słowa polityczny we współczesnej polszczyźnie
Semantic changes of the word political in contemporary Polish

Summary/Abstract: Attempts to subordinate language to political power are not a new phenomenon. Orwell,Klemperer, Barańczak, Baecker, Głowiński, Bralczyk, and Markowski, among others, wrote aboutpropaganda and its mechanisms.The article analyzes the mechanism of exclusion from discourse (andpolitical community) characteristic of the new newspeak (nowa nowomowa, pisomowa, piszczyzna). Itis about the semantic operations performed by the authorities on the words polityczny, apolityczność(political, apolitical), and the phrase protest polityczny (political protest), which then change theirmeanings and, unfortunately, enter the usage. Selected examples of various types of political statementsfrom recent years are considered. The text is a linguistically, socially, and politically engagedvoice of protest against such attempts to appropriate and demolish the Polish culture.

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