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Mowy miesięcznicowe Jarosława Kaczyńskiego jako spektakl władzy
Jarosław Kaczyński’s ‘monthly speeches’ as a spectacle of power

Author(s): Władysław Jacek Paluchowski, Krzysztof Podemski
Subject(s): Media studies, Social psychology and group interaction, Studies in violence and power, Present Times (2010 - today), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: public discourse; power; Smolensk disaster; monthly speech; mensiversaries; Jarosław Kaczyński;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of 91 speeches given in the years 2010–2018 by Jarosław Kaczyński, during the so-called monthly speeches or mensiversaries, commemorating the Polish plane crash in Smolensk on 10 April 2010. The basis of this analysis is the transcription of these speeches from the published television video. The quantitative and qualitative analysis was carried out using two computer programs (STADT and AntConc). The authors focus on the formal features of these speeches, on the main threads appearing in them, and on the functions that these speeches fulfilled in the process of acquiring and consolidating power by a political group headed by the main actor of these public performances.

  • Issue Year: 81/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 253-268
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish