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Konstytucja – jako gatunek prawny
Constitution – as a Legal Genre

Author(s): Joanna Grzelak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: constitucion; legal genre aspects; structural; cognitive; stylistic and progmatic

Summary/Abstract: Constitution is a text type which has not been described in genological perspective yet. The author, referring to the methodological assumptions proposed by Maria Wojtak, distinguishes genre designates (categories) in Polish constitutions. The emphasis is put to the structural, cognitive, stylistic and pragmatic aspects of the analysed texts. The subject of research there are Polish constitutions from 1791, 1921, 1934, 1952 and 1997.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 153-166
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish