@article{Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz_2022, title={Abortion in the Polish public discourse in the light of corpus research. A comparative approach}, volume={24}, url={https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/7915}, DOI={10.31648/pj.7915}, abstractNote={<p>The aim of the article is to determine differences in the construction of discourse on<br />abortion in Poland over 30 years (from the 1990s to 2021) in the light of corpus research.<br />Two reference corpora were used for the research (NKJP until 2010, MoncoPL from<br />2010) and two target corpora (weeklies: “Polityka”, “Tygodnik Powszechny”: 2020/2021).<br />Collocations with the lexeme abortion and key words characterizing contemporary<br />press discourse were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The study of reference<br />corpora showed a gradual increase in applications of means of polarizing discourse and<br />rendering it more expressive, which are markers of the worldview of its participants. The study of target corpora indicated that the basic difference between them, which affects<br />all the others, is related to the high textual and discursive importance of the lexeme law<br />in “Polityka” and the lexeme church in “Tygodnik Powszechny”. It was also pointed out<br />that abortion discourse of the recent months has focused on the activities of its subjects<br />(protest, court sentence), and not on the topic of abortion in the strict sense.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Prace Językoznawcze}, author={Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz, Ewa}, year={2022}, month={Sep.}, pages={85–102} }