Środki wartościująco-emotywne pod adresem współobywateli w dyskursie sceptyków wobec szczepień przeciw COVID-19
Value-emotional Measures towards Fellow Citizens in the Discourse of COVID-19 Vaccination Sceptics

Summary/Abstract: The authors analyse comments by COVID-19 vaccination sceptics published on Facebook. The subject of the study is the means of valuing fellow citizens receiving successive doses of the vaccine. The theoretical and methodological background is provided by the assumptions of J. Puzynina’s axiolinguistics. The analysis made it possible to distinguish two groups of valuing measures (systemically and pragmatically), which stigmatise certain characteristics: stupidity and being susceptible to manipulation. These include value-laden lexis, as well as presuppositions, ironic uses, or provocations. The third group is made up of measures representing coronalexics, e. g. szczepany, zakeczupowani or covidioci. The means of valuing used by vaccination sceptics are part of the WE–THEY dichotomy, which, combined with axiologically motivated discrediting, testifies to the ideologisation of the analysed discourse

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