Zmiany klimatu w dyskursie „Gazety Wyborczej” i „Rzeczpospolitej” w latach 2015–2022: ujęcie korpusowe

Dagmara Mateja

doi:10.31648/pj.10347

Climate change in the discourse of Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita in the years 2015–2022: a corpus-based approach

Dagmara Mateja

Uniwersytet Warszawski
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1217-5329

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31648/pj.10347

Abstract

This article examines selected elements of discourse strategies of nominalization and predication in Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita. The corpus of 645 texts excerpted for the purpose of the study consists of publications from 2015–2022 on topics related to the UN international climate summits. The research framework is based on corpus linguistics methods (Sketch Engine) and critical discourse analysis in its discourse-
historical approach. The findings indicate significant differences in the representation of climate issues in the two newspapers. Although both dailies employed pejorative lexical elements (e.g. fight, struggle, threat), the qualitative concordance analysis revealed that Gazeta Wyborcza used them practically exclusively to emphasise that climate change was a global problem requiring immediate action, while Rzeczpospolita used them also to highlight possible financial losses.

Keywords:

climate change, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, discourse strategies, Sketch Engine

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2024-09-30

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Mateja, D. (2024). Climate change in the discourse of Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita in the years 2015–2022: a corpus-based approach. Prace Językoznawcze, 26(3), 39–56. https://doi.org/10.31648/pj.10347