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The aim of the article is to examine the media discourse in Austria, mainly focusing on the opinion-shaping press, concerning the post-2022 crisis in relations with the Russian Federation and its political and economic ramifications. The author formulated two research hypotheses: 1) The above-mentioned discourse pertains to Austria’s ingrained perception of itself as a small, neutral nation and a member of the EU. 2) Depending on which of the three referenced images prevails in particular narratives, issues related to Russia, including the Russian threat, are framed in varying contexts. The article relies on two main research methods: content analysis of mass media, which includes the search function and extracting keywords, alongside a critical analysis of the discussed discourse (research period: February 2022-December 2023; selected titles representative of the opinion-shaping press: Der Standard, Kurier, Die Presse). The author reaches the following conclusions: 1) There is a correlation between references to the Second Republic as a small state and the tendency to thematize the crisis associated with Russia in terms of economic survival, and especially – to portray Austria’s economic situation more pessimistically than would be warranted by objective factors. 2) There is a consensus in the opinion-shaping press regarding the negative assessment of the Kremlin’s actions related to violations of international law. 3) The Austrian media discourse is confronting inquiries about the outcomes of the country’s long-standing close ties with Russia. It fluctuates along the narrative spectrum of explanatory vs. error-identifying orientation. The first perspective is common in narratives addressing Austria’s unique international status (perpetual neutrality, role as a mediator), while the second is found in those referring to the country on the Danube as part of the EU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores key trajectories of Swedish press discourse on immigration in the period 2010–2022 which covers a variety of socio-economic and political developments including parliamentary entry and growth of the immigration-critical Swedish far-right. Analysing the press across its key variants (liberal/conservative, nationwide/regional, broadsheet/tabloid), the article points to how dynamics of the press discourse on immigration locates within the key “discursive shifts” in the wider Swedish public sphere, including those related to regular political events such as national-parliamentary elections (of 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022) as well as those marked by other, pivotal contextual factors such as the 2015–2016 European “Refugee Crisis.” Deploying a systematic, multi-method approach from within critical discourse studies, the article leads to a number of findings, including on the gradual change and the apparent negativisation of the analysed press discourse over time. It highlights that the increasing hybridity and ambivalence of discursive constructions of immigration in the press are among the key factors underlying their alignment with the wider logic of the public sphere in Sweden, and especially with developments in Swedish political discourse in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of an annotation experiment involving 36 participants tasked with rating the subjectivity of 150 excerpts from Belgian French press articles and with identifying linguistic indicators of subjectivity in the excerpts. We first explore inter-annotator agreement and correlations between the annotation results and the variables associated with the articles, then perform qualitative analysis of a sample of annotated texts. We introduce “textual heat maps”, a convenient method to visualize the results of the token-level annotations. The study reveals that the perception of subjectivity in text varies among readers, but that some tokens are widely considered as indicators of subjectivity. While expected indicators such as sentiment words and expressive punctuation were found to influence interpretations, less established markers such as discourse markers and modal verbs also played a role. The use of the pronoun on was identified as a significant subjectivity indicator, despite its common use to conceal the author’s presence in journalistic writing. These findings offer insights into subjectivity in journalistic discourse and have significant implications for the field of journalism and for the improvement of automated models for subjectivity detection.

The purpose of this contribution is to examine, in a British press corpus of 90 articles dealing with Brexit, the segments inserted between inverted commas within the narrative speech of the journalist (called “îlots textuels” in French) and to highlight the interpretative effects underlying their use by the journalist. These fragments of other’s discourse, frequently used in media discourse, are explicitly marked as being other with quotation marks which signal the heterogeneity of the discourse. They make it possible to attract the reader’s attention, to make the speech stand out by clearly separating it from the journalist's speech. This clearly indicated borrowing of statements from another source, displayed as such, corresponds to a strategy of highlighting elements of discourse by the journalist, which may reflect a desire to collude with the reader. It also enables the journalists to distance themselves from the comments and point out the will not to endorse them, particularly when the content of the fragment refers to connotative expressions and violent and/or vulgar vocabulary. Over and above this distancing, the insertion of these salient fragments in the journalist’s speech can represent a means to express a position regarding the source of the segment or its content, and therefore present interpretative consequences that go beyond simple highlighting. It is therefore a real discursive tool available to the journalists to let their opinion shine through.

The aim of the article is to show the role of the adjective postsoviétique (Post-Soviet) in the construction of discursive identity of actors described with a country name or its reformulation in the French media discourse. The observation of uses of the adjective which completes a proper name or its discursive reformulation (such as état/pays/espace - state/country/space), allowed to distinguish the most common effects of the use of postsoviétique: the referential blurring, which contributes to the creation of the collective identity of the agents, the memorial character of the adjective postsoviétique, which constructs the discursive identity of agents by constantly recalling the past, as well as the appearance of the adjective in proximity to axiologically marked structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Almost twenty years have passed since the end of John Paul II's pontificate. The Roman Catholic Church in Poland faces a serious crisis, stimulated not only by secularisation processes, which are characteristic for Western Europe, but also by a whole series of adverse events that unfolded at the end of the year 2020; they resembled a disaster marathon and had a considerable potential to attract media attention. A wide spectrum of Polish opinion-forming weeklies, ranging from left-liberal to ultra-conservative and far-right ones, as well as those associated with the Polish Episcopate, published accounts of the situation within the Catholic Church. In this manner, press discourse shaped the public perception of Catholicism in Poland. An analysis of the periodicals' content disclosed a strong polarisation of opinions and a variety of interpretations. Differences between the particular weeklies were identified at the level of agenda-setting and prioritisation, framing, persuasion techniques employed, and additional contexts that were evoked, including the legal, moral, historical, philosophical, and religious ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Journalistic writing employs and mobilizes a number of discursive devices, such as polyphony and argumentation. These two processes combine in certain cases to form a whole discursive process peculiar to itself which is referred to as "argumentative polyphony". The objective of this article is to reflect on and problematize the notion of “argumentative polyphony” in the journalistic chronicles of Sid Ahmed SEMIANE and Hakim LAALAM. Through this study, we aim to understand the function of argumentative polyphony and its use in the press (the period after the word use should be removed) speech via a linguistic study inspired by the theories of argumentation by Oswald Ducrot (1980/1984)) and Jean-Claude Anscombre.

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This research is an attempt to present and discuss the subject of the journalistic discourse in the Kurdish press and educating the public on national issues, which are determined by the political and economic framework of the country through the elements of national sovereignty, international relations and economic policy. Citizen, the land and the country together so the researcher considered stop to search the facts related to the process of communication and those messages addressed to the general public through the press institutions lead us to reach the results in a scientific description and accurate analysis of the subject by which the researcher means As long as one of the scientific methods used in communication research based on the method of content analysis and questionnaire in the form of fieldwork in order to obtain the desired results. One of the most important results obtained by the researcher is the need for a unified press letter applied in all media institutions in order to preserve the safety of citizens and the security of the country, for it is observed that the Kurdish media do not adopt a unified view concerning national issues, in this case, the news on the Western Kurdistan. This approach to national issues should be eliminated and the Kurdish media should adopt a uniform media discourse in addressing such issues in order to crate a sense of national settlement and security.

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The article describes the main directions of the discussion on the vocational education of young people in the context of the challenges of modernisation, conducted in the pages of Polish magazines in the Kingdom of Poland at the beginning of the 20th century. This period brought intensive development and new forms of vocational education, and new contexts, problems and arguments about the legitimacy of further development of this form of education appeared in the journalistic discussion. In 1905-1918, in the public debate about the modernisation of education in the Kingdom of Poland the constantly raised issue was the vocational education of young people, which was supposed to respond to the rapidly changing reality of social life. So far, these issues had not been the subject of historical and pedagogical analyses, while the discussion about vocational education at the beginning of the 20th century was conducted in various periodicals. The first part of the article attempts to analyse the ideological contexts of the discussion on practical education. The subsequent parts are devoted to the two issues particularly important in the press discourse after 1905 - the vocational education of peasants and the professional education of girls and women. These problems are discussed on the basis of extensive press research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main subject of the article is to show the changes that have taken place in the media, including the newspapers. The starting point is the title of the book by B. Poulet „La Fin des Journaux et l’avenir de l’information” („The End of Newspapers and the Future of Information”, 2011). This article presents the changes that have occurred in the printed newspaper, with special attention to the description of the components of the press release. The paper also focuses on the significance of the image and its interaction with the text and the issues associated with the return of iconic and visual culture. The traditional newspaper is compared with an electronic, on-line version of the newspaper in the context of presenting the information and its geneology. Furthermore, the paper shows the transformation of the information into infotainment.

The article was intended as an attempt at defining a specific press publication in the form of a genre collection. It was the supplement to the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly (issue 29 of 2018) entitled “Festiwal Stolica Języka Polskiego” [Capital of Polish Language Festival]. The publication utilised the form of a press magazine, as apart from the program of the festival, it also included: an editorial, interviews, reviews, commentaries and the bios of selected festival guests. Thus, it offered a cooccurrence of specific statements in a specific place and time which is typical for such a collection. The whole could be assigned the function of announcing a cultural event (the festival), and the function of promoting it. The author analyses the publication from the discursive perspective, i.e. she focussed on specific communicational practices typical for contemporary press, which form a complex network of strategies, goals and forms of communication, which, in turn, form contemporary journalism. The analytical objective of the paper was to present the communicational polyphony of a specific collection of journalistic expressions, that is which interpret a specific reality and were used for convincing the readers to accept that interpretation. Individual texts were treated as voices, i.e. in types of linguistic actions formed in communicational (pragmatic) and formal terms.

The aim of this paper is to present my ongoing PhD research project concerning the social meaning construction in thanatological discourse. The project is in line with the research principles of the French school of discourse analysis, which places press discourse at the center of interest (cf. Moirand 2007, Veniard 2013). The representatives of this school of thought show that the mass media, being an intermediary of information for a given linguistic community, influence the way the community perceives the world. Therefore, the media, including mainstream press, by using certain nominations in repetitive way, imprint them in the discursive memory of a given community. The media name people, objects, phenomena and events in order to explain major crises and to assign them a place in the usual order of things (cf. Siblot 1997, 2001, Veniard 2013). The nomination takes place in an anaphoric network that ensures the coherence of the text. In our view, the contribution of anaphora, especially nominal anaphora, to the production of meaning in thanatological discourse is fundamental. We will show that anaphoric relations are not based on linguistic parameters (e.g. lexical relations), but on the discoursive memory of a given community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a context marked by the terrorist islamist attacks, French press had recently experienced difficulties in the sub-classification of Islam (e.g. radical Islam, moderate Islam, religious Islam, political Islam, Islam of France...). However, even though such terms are very common, they are seldom used with any precision or a clear grasp of their meaning. Therefore, the enunciation context, as well as the enunciators’ point of view, are both significant determinants for their interpretation. Through the study of a corpus gathered from three well known French newspapers (Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération), between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2015, including many occurrences of the words islam and musulman (muslim), our paper analyzes the relations between lexical designations and enunciative postures, implied by the sub-categorizations of islam in the French press, and more particularly among editorial writers.

Acronyms are lexical units that have been thoroughly explored in terms of their morphology or pronun-ciation. However, their semantic value has not been entirely determined yet. The present paper aims at investigating the manner in which a semantic value of an acronym, and particularly a difference between proper and common acronyms, influences techniques applied to translating them. In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, on the basis of the cognitive theory of proper names, the authors have distinguished Polish and French acronyms being ergonyms as well as acronyms belong-ing to proper names and these designating item classification. The paper concerns the analysis of both Polish and French translations of ergonyms in foreign language press and French common acronyms in the Polish press. The performed analysis allows observing a tendency towards transferring acronyms-ergonyms that play the role of a rigid designator rather than full names in the target text. By contrast, the techniques of translating common acronyms differ, depending on whether they designate phenomena typical of the source culture or universal ones.

The interlocutory dialogicality of press discourse manifests itself, among other things, in the use of common expressions that give the impression that “it is the language that speaks, not its users” (Bon-homme, 2012, p. 77). Euphemisms, for example, are used to raise difficult or polemic inducing issues, such as poverty, exclusion, war, politics, etc. Meanwhile, expressions that have become common in the source language, and are consistent with generally accepted norms, do not always remain transparent during the translation process. Depending on the translator’s choices, the phrases used in the target text can have various effects, ranging from the erasure of sensitive topics, to their hyperbolization. The subject of the paper is the comparison of articles published in the French monthly Le Monde diploma-tique and their translations, which appeared on the pages of the Polish edition of this periodical. Its aim is to reveal the traces of the translator’s presence, visible through his or her ways of interpreting euphe-mistic phrases, or toning down harsh expressions.

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This is a critical profile of Wiadomości Bibliograficzne Warszawskie [Warsaw Bibliographical News], a learned journal with a mission to keep a systematic record of current Polish publications and provide bibliographic information about their contents, published in 1882-1886 Teodor Paprocki, a leading Warsaw bookseller. The article outlines the history of the journal; analyzes its structure, layout, contents, editorial techniques, and its functioning in the bookselling trade and the academic community; and, finally, assesses its role in the development of professional bibliography writing in Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Press discourse is a specific -- and the earliest -- kind of media discourse. This article focuses on its most important characteristics, like internetization, sender-recipient differentiation, citizen journalism, tabloidization and genre change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this publication we would like to consider the issue of discursive strategy responsible for mediatisation of the migrant crisis currently taking place in Europe, partly as a result of military actions in the Middle East. The first objective is to describe media representation of the European migrant crisis published in the French and Polish press over the last five years. The author especially emphasizes one discursive moment, year 2015, when a significant increase in the number of migrants arriving in Europe occurred. The next task will be to assess the argumentative potential that results from a particular staging of the discussed event.

The implementation of school meal reform in Poland in 2015 has been withdrawn in because of vast social resistance. The analyses of press discourse in daily newspapers reveals how the critics and resistance has been shaped. The use of content analysis and critical discourse analysis helps to identify how power relations and ideologies connected to the anti-junk-food law has been contested and redefined. The changes were manifested by abandoning healthist framing in favour of construction of new discursive worlds. In the discourse of resistance, cultural food symbols such as hunger and satiety, the ceremonial nature and pleasure of eating, economic freedom and consumer freedom were employed, and the status of taste in consumption among children was highlighted. Historical and cultural context has given the basis for such redefining and provided cultural meanings for undermining expert narrative, which has been reform's rationale and hegemonising frame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the actancial and locative anaphors referring to the country name la Russie in the French written press. The aim of this article is to examine how anaphors that are coreferential with la Russie actualise the linguistic meaning of the proper name in question and, subsequently, to observe the ways in which they construct the social meaning of Russia. It appears that the most common, high-entropic anaphors are not just stylistic tools, but that they also have a rhetorical effect. They create a social meaning of Russia as a homogenous, living and acting entity. Furthermore, they contribute to the ways in which Russia is stereotyped and included in the domain of the well-known. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article relates to the circulation of sayings in the press discourse, which leads to create a media event and to determine its social meaning. The press discourse is intrinsically heterogeneous because of the references to statements of public life actors and to various texts. Those mentions are not always manifest, so we are dealing with intertextuality and interdiscursivity as well. The article presents several marks of both on example of articles from Le Figaro and Le Monde related to the “bonnets rouges” manifestations in November 2013. It shows how intertextuality and interdiscursivity influence the meaning of the media event and why it is interesting to distinguish them. The analysis is mainly inspired by the theories of S. Moirand (2007).

Acronyms are lexical units that have been thoroughly explored in terms of their morphology or pronunciation. However, their semantic value has not been entirely determined yet. The present paper aims at investigating the manner in which a semantic value of an acronym, and particularly a difference between proper and common acronyms, influences techniques applied to translating them. In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, on the basis of the cognitive theory of proper names, the authors have distinguished Polish and French acronyms being ergonyms as well as acronyms belonging to proper names and these designating item classification. The paper concerns the analysis of both Polish and French translations of ergonyms in foreign language press and French common acronyms in the Polish press. The performed analysis allows observing a tendency towards transferring acronymsergonyms that play the role of a rigid designator rather than full names in the target text. By contrast, the techniques of translating common acronyms differ, depending on whether they designate phenomena typical of the source culture or universal ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interlocutory dialogicality of press discourse manifests itself, among other things, in the use of common expressions that give the impression that "it is the language that speaks, not its users" (Bonhomme, 2012, p. 77). Euphemisms, for example, are used to raise difficult or polemic inducing issues, such as poverty, exclusion, war, politics, etc. Meanwhile, expressions that have become common in the source language, and are consistent with generally accepted norms, do not always remain transparent during the translation process. Depending on the translator's choices, the phrases used in the target text can have various effects, ranging from the erasure of sensitive topics, to their hyperbolization. The subject of the paper is the comparison of articles published in the French monthly Le Monde diplomatique and their translations, which appeared on the pages of the Polish edition of this periodical. Its aim is to reveal the traces of the translator's presence, visible through his or her ways of interpreting euphemistic phrases, or toning down harsh expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journalists produce a discourse that is highly constrained by the norms of the genre and by the need to produce an attractive discourse which is adapted to readers. This will to adapt is part of an accommodation process by which the authors adapt their discourse to their readers, without knowing them very precisely, while the readers, in turn, interpret the discourse according to their knowledge of the norms of the genre. The analysis of accommodation modes makes it possible to understand more precisely the relationship journalists build with their readers. The case of loose and associative THE-anaphora is especially revealing of the choices journalists make to present information as old or new, to the extent that the choice to present information in a definite form cannot systematically be justified by shared knowledge. These choices thus illustrate an accommodation process by which journalists present information as old although it is likely to be new for readers. These analyses are based on a 35 000-word press corpus. They evidence the fact that these choices allow journalists to obey genre-specific constraints. When the referent is the main topic of an article, anaphors build designation paradigms that enhance cohesion. Conversely, when the referent is a secondary topic, anaphors make it possible to background information, while providing all the elements that may be necessary to understand the article.

Informal vocabulary in modern Russian political discourse Nowadays the political press discourse differs from political press discourse in Soviet times a lot. In modern Russian political discourse informal vocabulary (like colloquial and slang words) performs an important role. Colloquial and slang words are connected with a strong (mostly negative) emotional and expressive colouring, they help to judge phenomena of political life and create certain reflection about politicians and their activities.

In this publication we would like to consider the issue of discursive strategy responsible for mediatisation of the migrant crisis currently taking place in Europe, partly as a result of military actions in the Middle East. The first objective is to describe media representation of the European migrant crisis published in the French and Polish press over the last five years. The author especially emphasizes one discursive moment, year 2015, when a significant increase in the number of migrants arriving in Europe occurred. The next task will be to assess the argumentative potential that results from a particular staging of the discussed event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets out to define an ap-proach to the construction of the informative discourse in the press, specially the gender of the news. To do so, the theories of Charaudeau will be used as a model of analysis. First, the article examines the discursive procedures that the journalist-enunciator uses in order to transmit the problematic facts of current issues to the reader. The choice and organization of those discursive elements will be always influenced by his point of view. The article then analyses the scheme of components that organizes the prototype of the text of the news. This model of enuncia-tion is finally tested through the analyses of several press articles.

Using a methodology that combines the systematic gathering of articles with the statistical analysis of their contents, this paper identifies the main themes that structured the French daily newspapers’ discourse about space in 2006. It would appear that the discourse is organized along four axes : man’s activity in space, inhabited flights or astrophysics, and how space affects us, by providing an impetus to the economy and by stimulating our imagination.

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This article proposes a few pointers with regards to the discourse of the press that may well help the discourse analyst in approaching their first confrontation with a sample from the written press. After analyzing the specific positioning of the researcher towards their object, we examine the nature of what is to be read in newspapers. The discourse of the press appears as an object proper, not to be reduced to a reflection of public speech. It is characterized by polyphony and by the selection and transformation of the statements it carries. A minimal familiarity with professional journalistic practice is necessary in order to understand who a newspaper gives a voice to difference actors in the public sphere.

Drawing on theories of nationalism, two recent books by Dilek Giiven and Ulkii Agir engage with the September Pogrom in Istanbul on the 6th and the 7th of September 1955. To explain the pogrom's emergence from its historical background both studies discuss the role of Young Turkish ideology, ethnic violence in the course of Turkish nation building, and the development of minority politics throughout the Turkish Republic. On the basis of interviews and archival materials, Dilek Giiven meticulously reconstructs the course of events, the actors, their motives and the context. Ulkii Agir analyses the Turkish press discourse in the pogrom's preparatory phase focusing on the Greek Orthodox community. Critically discussing the two studies, this article scrutinises current conceptualisations of collective violence in research devoted to post-Genocidal Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking as a starting point the nowadays evident role of media in the process of forming public opinion, our article focuses on the function performed in it by the title pages of periodicals. The analysis of their iconic and textual message (based on the covers of French magazines concerning the so-called affaire DSK) allows to state that it mainly serves the purpose of building up emotions in the receiver, which eventually is meant to achieve a certain persuasive effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article follows the trend of contemporary discursive research by approaching the problem of information media coverage. The main purpose is to describe discursive mechanisms responsible for creating conceptual social space necessary to perception process by individuals of a given society (social identity). The author presents a study of numerous discursive phenomena ordering them according to particular pragmatic objectives of media strategies, such as creating community environment, creating representation of social events, legitimacy of created information. The analysis is based on Polish and French informative press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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