Antisemitism in the Polish press of the interwar period. Lexis of the newspaper headlines of the weekly titled „Pod Pręgierz” (“In the Pillory”) Cover Image
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Antysemityzm w polskiej prasie dwudziestolecia międzywojennego. Leksyka nagłówków prasowych tygodnika „Pod Pręgierz”
Antisemitism in the Polish press of the interwar period. Lexis of the newspaper headlines of the weekly titled „Pod Pręgierz” (“In the Pillory”)

Author(s): Milena Wojtyńska-Nowotka
Contributor(s): Monika Czarnecka (Translator)
Subject(s): Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Lexis, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Antisemitism
Published by: Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA
Keywords: antisemitism; language ethics; language aggression; language of newspaper headlines; structuralism; lexis; thematic circles of vocabulary; statistical method of studying vocabulary; keywords;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the lexical issues of the Polish language of the interwar period approached from the angle of language ethics. It represents the stream of structuralist research and has been prepared in accordance with the synchronic method. The author concentrates on describing selected aspects of the language of newspaper headlines. The object of the research paper is the lexical corpus of 106 issues representing 5 annals of a radical antisemitic weekly titled „Pod Pręgierz” (“In the Pillory”). The outcome of the performed analysis of the vocabulary of headlines has shown that the dominance of the lexical linguistic measures which negatively evaluate the Jewish community fully fits the lexis of „Pod Pręgierz” into the phenomenon of language aggression.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 64-78
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish