Przesłuchanie przed sejmową komisją śledczą jako gatunek komunikacji politycznej i medialnej
The hearing before the Parliamentary Investigation Committee as a genre of political and mediarelated communication

Summary/Abstract: Every human activity has its own distinctive, diverse varieties of expression. Furthermore, specific genre patterns correspond to characteristic situations of language actions. In this article I approach the hearings before the Parliamentary Investigation Committee as a genological and communication phenomenon. The aim of the article is to define hearings before the Investigation Committee as a variety of text genre and to present its typological determinants. In this study I will attempt to answer the question whether the operation of the Investigation Committee was conducive to crystallizing a relatively new genre of political and media-related communication, as well as whether there exists a genre pattern of these hearings. In my analysis I paid special attention to the comparison between the questioning of witnesses during a court trial and before an investigation committee. I presented the structure of communication, linguistic rendition, non-linguistic conditions of hearings, and the impact of mass media on the shape of the statements that were produced. The analysis was limited to the hearings of the Parliamentary Investigation Committee for Betting and Gambling, which dealt with the so-called “Gambling scandal”. The language of expression during live coverage of these hearings was taken into account in this article. However, while examining the linguistic structure and the language layer, I rely on text transcripts which constitute a record of the said statements and which reflect its specific characteristics. Eleven transcripts of the Committee meetings were used in this study.

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