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The meaning of activities in Okolice Sztuki – much went on at Strych
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The text is a commentary to the phenomena in Polish modern art in the final years of the 20th century. It constitutes a “first-hand” account by a participant of the events and the host of the location. The location was the ...
Contemporary communication and ratiomorphization of meaning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
In the article, I attempted to indicate that in modern communication, i.e. also in social life, ratiomorphism has been appearing. I define it as an unconscious, innate, genetically determined and teleonomically survival-driven ...
Rhetorical strategies in the anti-alcohol propaganda of Polska Kronika Filmowa
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The core of the text is a rhetorical analysis of the anti-alcohol propaganda in the films by Polska Kronika Filmowa produced by WFDiF. The author selected four reports from the popular series: Propaganda PRL-u. Najzabawniejsze ...
The style of independent periodicals in 1979–1980 in the face of the dominant ideological discourse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The goal of the article is to offer a style-focussed description of samizdat press articles from the late-1970s, which were the textual manifestation of the independent discourse at that time. The author analysed representative ...
Political communication of Germany as a state of mature democracy in the context of the migrant crisis of the 2010s
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The aim of the article is the media and political analysis of the political discourse of German Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding refugees, launched by the famous slogan Wir schaffen das! The time study covers the period ...
Philosophy modules on journalism courses at Polish higher education establishments and the search for meaning. A few remarks for discussion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article refers to the issue of journalism education at university, in terms of the philosophical categories of meaning and truth. The author analyses the curricula of selected Polish higher education institutions in ...
Henryk Sienkiewicz’s output and literary censorship in the DDR
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
Works by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish writer and the winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature, were subjected to verification by the DDR’s censorship apparatus several times. Censors considered his novellas which ...
Bez sensu as an act of communication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article presents a communication-based analysis of the function of the ‘bez sensu’ [meaningless/ pointless/makes no sense etc.] phraseme. The author discusses the conversational and discursive opportunities for using ...
The City of Man and the critique of fascism: The perspective of Hermann Broch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The City of Man initiative, with a conscious reference to Saint Augustine’s De civitate Dei, wanted to build a system after the First World War that would ensure free and unfettered human development. This initiative was ...
The impact of a YouTuber’s lively gesticulation on his image. The case of Wojtek Drewniak and his Historia bez cenzury
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The aim of the article is to verify the importance of gesticulation on one’s image in the popular science discourse based on YouTube videos by Wojciech Drewniak, a historian. The study employed the formula of an experiment ...