Individual Features in the Contemporary Polish Reportage
Individual Features in the Contemporary Polish Reportage

A Syntactic and Stylistic Study on the Basis of "Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji" by Witold Szabłowski

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the language individual features in the contemporary Polish reportage based on the text Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji by Witold Szabłowski. The author presents both the statistical analysis and the stylistic peculiarities of this reportage which was prized a prestigious Beata Pawlak Award in 2011 and contains important components characteristic for the journalistic style. The author uses the traditional syntactic model of Zenon Klemensiewicz and takes into consideration Stanisław Jodłowski’s research achievements. According to the postulates of Anna Wierzbicka, Maria Rachwałowa, Stanisław Mikołajczak, and Marek Ruszkowski, she selects a sample of 200 utterances which are examples of such narrative constructions that strongly indicate subjectiveness. In her research, firstly, she conducts a detailed analysis of the syntactic and statistical features of Szabłowski's text in comparison with the style of the contemporary Polish reportage. Secondly, she draws attention to stylistic unique features indicating the reporting syntax. As a result, the author notices the following language individual features in Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji by Witold Szabłowski: 1) simple utterances and direct and indirect objects in the developed sentences, 2) developed clauses and adverbials, 3) objective hypotaxis, and 4) adverbial hypotaxis.The article deals with the individual features of language in the contemporary Polish reportagebased on the text Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji by Witold Szabłowski. The authorpresents both the statistical analysis and the stylistic peculiarities of this reportage whichreceived a prestigious Beata Pawlak Award in 2011 and contains important componentscharacteristic for the journalistic style. The author uses the traditional syntactic model of ZenonKlemensiewicz and takes into consideration Stanisław Jodłowski’s research achievements.According to the postulates of Anna Wierzbicka, Maria Rachwałowa, Stanisław Mikołajczak,and Marek Ruszkowski, she selects a sample of 200 utterances which are examples of suchnarrative constructions that strongly indicate subjectivity. In her research, firstly, she conductsa detailed analysis of the syntactic and statistical features of Szabłowski's text in comparisonwith the style of the contemporary Polish reportage. Secondly, she draws attention to uniquestylistic features indicating the reporting syntax. As a result, the author notices the followingindividual features of language in Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji by WitoldSzabłowski: 1) simple utterances and direct and indirect objects in the developed sentences, 2)developed clauses and adverbials, 3) objective hypotaxis, and 4) adverbial hypotaxis.

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