RSS 1.0Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica T. 58 (2020) nr 3
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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 ... -
The (d)evolution of political communication in Italy: Beppe Grillo’s case
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article aims at analyzing the case of Beppe Grillo and his Five Stars Movement in terms of social, cultural and linguistic phenomenon that – initially as a virtual party without a structured organization – seems to ... -
A comparison between the concept of Newspeak in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel and the way of thinking about language in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The aim of the article is to investigate some of the possible sources of inspiration for Orwell’s concept of the artificial language called Newspeak, which, in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is shown as an effective tool ... -
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 ... -
Propaganda content in the Polish sports press of the 1950s
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article describes main forms of socialist propaganda in polish sports press of the 1950’s decade. As the analysis shows, sports magazines, despite their apparent thematic distance from political issues, had become tools ... -
Culture in the service of politics. The German question and relations between the German Democratic Republic and the Polish People’s Republic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The politics of memory and culture of the Polish People’s Republic alludes to Ideologiekritik in its idiosyncratic way characterized by Marxist utopianism. In reality, this leads to reversing this theory. The causes of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Płomyczek’s handbook on good manners as a manifestation of upbringing strategies under socialism
Grzegorzewska, Anita
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article raises the topic of good manners and upbringing in the People’s Republic of Poland using the example of children’s and young adult press from the period. The author analysed 24 issues of Płomyczek from 1968 ... -
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 ... -
Tajemnice ASMR – perspektywa ogólna i lingwistyczna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article presents the concept of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) from a general and a linguistic perspective. The definition of the notion and a review on the state of research is followed by a classification ... -
Hidden meaning in art
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The author discusses the notion of the interpretation of a work of art. Starting with the assumption that the expression “Art’s hidden meaning” should be understood as a search for narrative plots that can be detected ... -
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 ... -
The silent meaning of the cognitive-performative horizon
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The article presents the discussion which begins with a semantic clarification of the Polish terms of ‘sens’ [meaning] and ‘znaczenie’ [reference] in Polish linguistic usus, starting with the basic dictionary and corpus-based ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
When there is meaning in design? Two dimensions of the practice of designing (communication)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)John Thackara emphasised that 80% of the negative impact on the natural environment has its origin in design and the randomness of its application. Considering the entirety of design practices, one would have a hard time ... -
Does standard interpretation exist? Empirical verification of selected assumptions of communicational grammar
Filipczak-Białkowska, Anita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The article poses a major study question: “Does standard interpretation exist?” In the methodology of communicational grammar, to which the author refers, standard interpretation is defined as a generalised pattern of the ... -
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 ... -
Narration as the production of sense using the example of a music video of the song All by Myself by Celine Dion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The narration in the music video to Celine Dion’s song All By Myself is a linearly organised construct or composition equipped with features of logicality, which organises specific linguistic or image-based material. It ...