Published: 2020-12-29

Polish obituary notices – methods of valuation in language (example of „Gazeta Wyborcza”)

Mariusz Jakosz

Abstract

The author of the article analyzes Polish obituary notices published in „Gazeta Wyborcza” (the nationwide newspaper published daily). In the beginning the characteristic features and types of this genre has been discussed. The author attempts to explain also how valuation is understood in linguistic context and through which means it is realized. He has fully analyzed selected obituary notices regarding them from linguistic and axiological perspective. His aim has been to show what was being valuated in obituary notices and how it was manifested in different elements of such texts (initial formula, identification and characteristics of a person who died, the ending of the obituary notice).

Download files

Citation rules

Jakosz, M. (2020). Polish obituary notices – methods of valuation in language (example of „Gazeta Wyborcza”). Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 6(2), 219–235. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10952

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2010)
Published: 2021-01-05


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

This website uses cookies for proper operation, in order to use the portal fully you must accept cookies.