Published: 2023-11-22

Persuasion and Political Propaganda on Stripes from 1945–1955

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the unique form of ephemera, so-called stripes (German: Streifen), and its role in political communication during the postwar period in Poland. The stripes are the ephemera in the shape of narrow horizontal paper with catchphrase or slogan printed. On the one hand, the stripes were the media of useful information addressed to the general public, focused on the common life problems of the postwar period. On the other hand, these kinds of ephemera were the powerful tool of propaganda, transferring massages which aim was to bring up in socialism. This analysis covered 105 items, from which there were catchphrases and slogans excerpted, and then divided into two groups: stripes with a dominant information and persuasive function and stripes with a dominant propaganda function. As the analysis revealed, the language of slogans printed on stripes (within the lexis, syntax, phraseology) has the characteristics of newspeak, though in the first group there were many texts that could seem to be educational or even neutral.

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Śleziak, M. (2023). Persuasion and Political Propaganda on Stripes from 1945–1955. Forum Lingwistyczne, 11(2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2023.11.2.02

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-29


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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