»Nie mam nic przeciwko tym obcym, ale ci obcy nie są stąd«. Konceptualizacja obcości w dyskursie prasowym w Polsce i w Niemczech
I DON’T MIND FOREIGNERS, BUT THEY AREN’T FROM HERE. THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF FOREIGNNESS IN JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE IN POLAND AND GERMANY
Author(s): Jorg ZinkenSubject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Linguistic Worldview; the opposition: us—them [swój—obcy]; Polish and German ideological discourse; Teun van Dijk; the legitimization—delegitimization of actions
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the opposition US — THEM, fundamental for the linguistic worldview, in chosen texts of the Polish and German ideological (political) discourse. It is accepted, following van Dijk, that ideological discourse is characterized by establishing and reproducing the distinction between one’s own group and other groups. The function of ideological discourse is, on the one hand, to legitimize actions and beliefs of one’s own group and, on the other, to delegitimize actions and beliefs of other groups.It seems that such conceptualizations of US and THEM are accepted in popular Polish and German magazines {Wprost and Spiegel, respectively). Depending on who is to be considered as belonging to US and who is to be excluded, those abstract concepts are realized in a functionally changeable manner.
Journal: Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka I Kultury
- Issue Year: 12/2000
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 53-62
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Polish