Semantyczne zmiany  słowa „polityczny" we współczesnej polszczyźnie

Jolanta Antas

doi:10.31261/FL.2023.11.2.10

Published: 2023-12-29

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)

Semantic changes of the word "political" in contemporary Polish

Jolanta Antas

Section: Varia

https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2023.11.2.10

Abstract

Attempts to subordinate language to political power are not a new phenomenon. Orwell, Klemperer, Barańczak, Baecker, Głowiński, Bralczyk, and Markowski, among others, wrote about propaganda and its mechanisms.The article analyzes the mechanism of exclusion from discourse (and political community) characteristic of the new newspeak (nowa nowomowa, pisomowa, piszczyzna). It is about the semantic operations performed by the authorities on the words polityczny, apolityczność (political, apolitical), and the phrase protest polityczny (political protest), which then change their meanings and, unfortunately, enter the usage. Selected examples of various types of political statements from recent years are considered. The text is a linguistically, socially, and politically engaged voice of protest against such attempts to appropriate and demolish the Polish culture.

Keywords:

politics , political , apolitical , political protest , political attitude

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Antas, J. (2023). Semantic changes of the word "political" in contemporary Polish. Forum Lingwistyczne, 11(2), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2023.11.2.10

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