<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of this thesis was to analyze the speeches of politicians of the two largest Polish parties: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska, using post-dependence theory. The work describes postcolonial and post-dependence theories, presents socially political divisions – in the categories of right wing and left wing politics – and describes the methodological issues of critical discourse analysis. The subject of analysis in the research part of the thesis were politics’ speeches on the following topics: the “Rodzina 500+” programme, terrorist attacks, the dispute with the Constitutional Court in Poland, Brexit and the Smolensk catastrophe. The goal of the analysis was to find the post-dependence discourse features.</p></abstract>

The aim of this thesis was to analyze the speeches of politicians of the two largest Polish parties: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska, using post-dependence theory. The work describes postcolonial and post-dependence theories, presents socially political divisions – in the categories of right wing and left wing politics – and describes the methodological issues of critical discourse analysis. The subject of analysis in the research part of the thesis were politics’ speeches on the following topics: the “Rodzina 500+” programme, terrorist attacks, the dispute with the Constitutional Court in Poland, Brexit and the Smolensk catastrophe. The goal of the analysis was to find the post-dependence discourse features.

Post-Dependence Discourse in the Language of Politicians of Prawo I Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska

Social Communication

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The aim of this thesis was to analyze the speeches of politicians of the two largest Polish parties: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska, using...

Post-Dependence Discourse in the Language of Politicians of Prawo I Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska

Published Online: Jan 18, 2017

Page range: 59 - 71

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sc-2016-0012

Keywords
post-dependence, politics, discourse

© 2016 Kamil Olechowski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Post-Dependence Discourse in the Language of Politicians of Prawo I Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska

Published Online: Jan 18, 2017

Page range: 59 - 71

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sc-2016-0012

Keywordspost-dependence, politics, discourse

© 2016 Kamil Olechowski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
post-dependence, politics, discourse