The author undertakes a comparative analysis of text of the first speech as Prime Minister by Donald Tusk, on 18 November 2011, as well as by Beata Szydło, on 18 November 2015. The Prime Minister’s exposé is a form of ...

The article substantiates the distinction of professional journalistic language as a variant of langue representing journalistic style, and implemented in three groups of speech genres – informing, estimating and stimulating. ...

The article is aimed at analysing the genre, structural, stylistic, pragmatic and cognitive traits of the documentary soap titled “Szkoła” (“The School”) which is an example of the process of widening the sphere of tabloid ...

The article attempts to decide whether sports reports are more about news or commentary. Based on an analysis of press material, the author examines various characteristics of the genre and tries to determine their ...

Satire is a form of the presentation of reality which relies on distortion and deformation. The media make frequent use of satirical forms of expression. Freedom of expression, including satirical expression, is guaranteed ...

Based on a sample of comments gleaned from the Onet.pl portal, the author discusses positive and negative evaluations (axiological charge) found in internet language, and she examines some of the language devices used in ...

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the regional newspaper “Dziennik Łódzki” (the oldest in the Łódź region) and its website www.dzienniklodzki.pl. The analysis concerned the scope of content ...

The paper presents ambiguity phenomena in terms of cognitive categorization and blending processes. Politicians’ manifesto speeches are analysed based on Lakoff’s and Langacker’s semantics and Langacker’s grammar research ...

The article presents the individual characteristics of the language (idiolect/idiostyle) of the columns written by Henryk Martenka from “Angora” in 2015. These are among others: humour, irony, colloquial, lexical innovation, ...

This paper aims to present a theoretically-empirical reflection on the citizen-oriented model of journalism developed from the social responsibility of the media paradigm. The main indicator of that model is the significant ...